I gave my original copy of Cult Flicks & Trash Pics to a friend so this is the 2001 reissue. The sci-fi and vamp ones are the 1996 editions. Am I the only one who still hangs onto these?
“For too long it has been thought that in order to understand metaphors it is necessary to know the code (or the encyclopedia): the truth is that the metaphor is the tool that permits us to understand the encyclopedia better. This is the type of knowledge that the metaphor stakes out for us.”
— Umberto Eco, Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (via thirdity)
