Bad Analogy
07/01/2010 12:19 a.m.
Bad Analogy.


So imagine there's this house. Or, no. Not actually a house. More like a wall. Well, not a wall, but something big. Like an elephant, and you're this elephant's keeper and you know everything about it and you are trying to explain what it is to a couple of blind guys who think it's a wall. Except it's not really an elephant, because that's stupid, but it's more like when you've got this really brilliant Halloween costume but no one knows what you are (you thought it was obvious: you're an elephant). You can't explain the mix-up, because the trunk piece sort of muffles your voice (but it looks like no one is listening anyway - too busy laughing at your bad craft skills).

That's not quite the right analogy though.

Okay. Not an elephant exactly, not a wall or a costume. It's not that. It's more like describing the colour 'elephant grey' to a kid who's been blind from birth, or the tune of a favourite new song (Nelly the Elephant) to your deaf-since-birth-and-illiterate grandmother. Maybe if you gesticulate a tad slower, she'll get the message and not just think you are completely mental (as usual). Maybe she will try to imagine it, maybe she won't even sneer and maybe she'll start to 'get it' too.

It's kind of like that, but not really.


You know what I mean?

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Work in progress for an illustration exchange project I am working on. Intended meaning and misinterpreted metaphor plague my life. Always.