There's no shortage of
people convinced that PH
(Paul Hurt) is a dwarf of
culture and intelligence!
Allow me to present some of
the evidence:
The Scottish journalist
Kenny Hodgart, in a piece
published in 'The Herald:'
'You've met Mr Hurt's type:
not thick exactly, just a
bit impervious to nuance, a
bit cognitively impaired,
like Sarah Palin maybe.'
Two bloggers: 'this jerk
... with what passes for a
mind' and 'The concept of
metaphor, or of extended
imagery, seems to have
passed him by, suggesting a
certain lack of imagination
... '
Two commenters on the
'Daily Telegraph' Website: 'Mr
Hurt is obviously a
philistine.' And 'Oh dearie
me, someone needs metaphor
explaining.'
Then there's
mettaculture's outspoken
criticism of me on this
page.
Still, I console myself
with the evidence that I'm
not completely devoid of
culture and intelligence. My
Website
www.linkagenet.com does
after all have pretty good
rankings in Google for quite
a number of search terms
(although a high ranking in
a search engine is no
guarantee of quality, of
course.) It even has some
good rankings for metaphor -
and the Website has a
technical essay on metaphor!
Some recent rankings, taken
from a longer list.
Israel Palestinian
ideology 2 /
10,300,000
feminist ideology 2 /
12,800,000
green ideology objections
1 and 2 / 24,100,000
ethical depth 1 /
29,600,000
democracies warfare
"harsh realities" 3 /
152,000
Irish history distortions
illusions 1 /
22,300,000
"the culture industry"
BBC 1 / 628,000
crap credulity 5 /
591,000
metaphor theme 5 /
12,100,000
metaphor principal
subsidiary 4 / 8,850,000
Kafka Rilke 1 / 1,020,000
Nietzsche aphorisms
extended forms 1 / 626,000
"Web design" "large page"
2 / 89,100
"large page design" 1, 2,
3, 4 / 347,000
"page travel" Web design
4 / 95,600
gardening boards beds 3 /
43,300,000
linkage gravitation
evolution 4 / 25,700,000
"framework science" 7 /
26,500
linkage contrast 1 /
27,100,000
linkage theory 4 /
38,600,000
aphorisms religion
ideology 1 and 2 / 3,870,000
aphorisms “the arts” 1 /
440,000
aphorisms power justice 3
/ 1,550,000
aphorisms happiness
suffering 5 / 5,720,000
aphorisms ethics 3 /
338,000
aphorisms courage 5 /
518,000
poem line length 2 /
22,200,000
poem line short long 1 /
68,600,000
poem war the Holocaust
the
Troubles 2 / 35,800,000
poetry metre notation 6 /
121,000
metre linking meaning 1 /
1,780,000
poetry “humour and
sarcasm” 4 / 101,000
poem composite 1 /
441,000
poem modulation 1 /
267,000
poem linkages 1 and 2 /
3,030,000