https://padlet.com/lgarcia0924/x84vtqjn5drf7lpg en-us 2023-05-31 14:40:42 UTC 2026-03-08 03:07:24 UTC hello@padlet.com lgarcia0924 https://padlet.com/lgarcia0924/x84vtqjn5drf7lpg/wish/2610634476 Many events in Indian history have an equivalent in Saleem's life, and even his face looks like a map of India, as Zagallo, the Geography teacher, says: "In the face of this ugly ape you don't see the whole map od India? See here- the Deccan peninsula hanging down! These stains are Pakistan! These birthmark on the right ear is the East Wing; and these horrible stained left cheek, the West!"]]> 2023-05-31 14:47:09 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia0924/x84vtqjn5drf7lpg/wish/2610634476 lgarcia0924 https://padlet.com/lgarcia0924/x84vtqjn5drf7lpg/wish/2610639783 "Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I've gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am i particularly exceptional in this matter; each "I", every one of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. To understand me, you'll have to swallow a world." -Saleem Sinai speaking.]]> 2023-05-31 14:52:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia0924/x84vtqjn5drf7lpg/wish/2610639783 lgarcia0924 https://padlet.com/lgarcia0924/x84vtqjn5drf7lpg/wish/2610643392 Saleem and India were born exactly in the same moment and sometimes, he even talks about the country referring to himself:
 "... newspapers celebrated my arrival, politics ratified my authenticity."]]> 2023-05-31 14:55:37 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia0924/x84vtqjn5drf7lpg/wish/2610643392 lgarcia0924 https://padlet.com/lgarcia0924/x84vtqjn5drf7lpg/wish/2610645744 Saleem's bond with his country is also anticipated by Prime Minister Nehru, in the letter he sends to all the Midnight Children:
"We shall be watching your life with the closest attention; it will be, in a sense, the mirror of our own."]]> 2023-05-31 14:57:51 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia0924/x84vtqjn5drf7lpg/wish/2610645744 lgarcia0924 https://padlet.com/lgarcia0924/x84vtqjn5drf7lpg/wish/2610652739 The natural and physical environment shapes a language, primarily its vocabulary, in an obvious way; consequently, it will shape the metaphors as well. Given a certain kind of habitat, speakers living there will be attuned (mostly subconsciously) to things and phenomena that are characteristic of that habitat; and they will make use of these things and phenomena for the metaphorical comprehension and creation of their conceptual universe.
 
Metaphor: A Practical Introduction, Zoltán Kövecses (Kovescses, 2010)



]]> 2023-05-31 15:04:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lgarcia0924/x84vtqjn5drf7lpg/wish/2610652739 lgarcia0924 https://padlet.com/lgarcia0924/x84vtqjn5drf7lpg/wish/2610657147 For Hill, such glorification is clearly hardly the whole of the story: indeed, it is a romanticisation of the harshness of life, as he is himself testifying in his allusions to the life of his own grandmother. Yet, this is hardly enough; for the most extraordinary thing about this section is how the central metaphors, particularly perhaps the ‘damsonbloom of dust’, speak back to this idea and reconvert it. For the ‘damsonbloom’ is surely beautiful, or at the very least beautified by the poet; and that beauty is ‘not to be shaken by posthumous clamour’. The literal reference to ‘posthumous clamour’ may, although we can hardly be certain of this, refer to the time after his grandmother’s death; but metaphorically it seems to point us in quite a different direction from the attack on Ruskin, and to an opposite sense that this beauty, this particular kind of beauty, hard-fought and dangerous though it might be, cannot be shaken or denigrated by the thoughts or the pontifications of those who come after and who have never in fact experienced what they claim to be talking about.

Metaphor, David Punter (Punter, 2007)

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