“Angel.” I lift her chin. “What happened to the Captain?” / She opens her mouth to speak but all that comes out is a single word, which she gasps as if it is her last, dying breath. / “Octopusses!” She chokes, and spits the word out again. “Octopusses!”

But notwithstanding my cupidity for such dainties, I have that happy adaptation of taste which can banquet, with delight, upon hesternal offals; can nibble ignominious radishes, or masticate superannuated mutton.

The growth and acceptance of this idea followed Amartya Sen's theory of exchange entitlements, which suggested that famines occur not from an absolute lack of food but from people's inability to obtain access to that food.

Metaphors provide epistemic access to the world via the articulation of new ideas at a stage when literal language cannot cope.