06-13-2011, 09:05 AM
(06-13-2011, 08:13 AM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: I was thinking about the metaphor of harvest and realized that we use it to refer to two different types of actions. In a garden, when we harvest tomatoes we gather them over a period of time as they gradually ripen. However, when farmers harvest a field of grain, they take the whole field at the same time.
rather uncanny analogy.