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verbal flair, reported to the American Legion that the mother of all battles
had become the mother of all retreats. ABC news anchor Peter Jennings
observed that for Saddam the mother of battles had become the mother of
corners. The Washington Post of February 28, 1991, stated that the allied
attack was the mother of all maneuvers and that General Norman Schwarzkopf's
remarkable report to the press was the mother of all briefings. The
New York Times of March 1, 1991, printed on its Op-Ed page the "Mother
of All Columns."
page 57, "nor did Alice think": Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,
in The Annotated Alice, with an introduction and notes by Martin Gardner
(New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1960), pp. 25-26.
page 58, "Blending has been studied in detail": See Gilles Fauconnier and Mark
Turner, "Conceptual Projection and Middle Spaces," UCSD Cognitive
Science Technical Report 9401 (San Diego: UCSD, April 1994); Mark
Turner and Gilles Fauconnier, "Blending and Metaphor" (manuscript,
1996); Mark Turner and Gilles Fauconnier, "Conceptual Integration and
Formal Expression," Journal of Metaphor and Symbolic Activity 10, no. 3
(1995): 183-204; Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner, "Blending as a Central
Process of Grammar," in Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language,
ed. Adele Goldberg (Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information,
in press); Mark Turner, "Conceptual Blending and Counterfactual
Argument in the Social and Behavioral Sciences," in Counterfactual
Thought Experiments in World Politics, ed. Philip Tetlock and Aaron Belkin
(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, in press); Seana Coulson,
"Analogic and Metaphoric Mapping in Blended Spaces," Center for Research
in Language Newsletter 9, no. 1 (1995): 2-12; Gilles Fauconnier, Mappings
in Thought and Language (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press);
Nili Mandelblit, "Blending in Causative Structures" (manuscript, 1994); Nili
Mandelblit, "The Theory of Blending as Part of the General Epistemological
Developments in Cognitive Science" (manuscript, 1995); Todd Oakley,
"Presence: The Conceptual Basis of Rhetorical Effect" (Diss., University of
Maryland, 1996); Douglas Sun, "Thurber's Fables for Our Time: A Case
Study in Satirical Use of the Great Chain Metaphor," Studies in American
Humor, n.s. 3, no. 1 (1994), pp. 51-61.
page 61, "Perch'io parti'": Inferno, canto 28, lines 139—42.
page 62, "In general, we understand proverbs": George Lakoff and I have previously
analyzed this kind of projection to a generic space in More than Cool
Reason, pp. 162—66 ("Generic Is Specific").
page 64, "So foul a sky": William Shakespeare, King John, act 4, scene 2, lines
108-9.