[Article] The moral necessity of metaphor Adjust Share Rooting history in a figure of speech By Cynthia Ozick, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags Ethics Metaphor More from Cynthia Ozick The Bloodline of the Alkanas Cyrus Alkana was my father, and if you can recognize this name, you belong to an inconspicuous substratum of humanity — a coterie, if such things can still be said… Literary entrails The boys in the alley, the disappearing readers, and the novel's ghostly twin Why I won’t go to Germany Adjust Share Close < Previous Issue | View All Issues | Next Issue > May 1986 < Previous Issue | View All Issues | Next Issue > Table of Contents Close