PeakOil is You
"Pick" apart my analogy before I publish
Re: "Pick" apart my analogy before I publish
by Heineken » Mon 24 Oct 2005, 14:09:05
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('killJOY', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '"')As the lowest-hanging, reddest, finest apple trees begin to 'deplete' . . . ."
Yes, this is confusing. I was trying to maintain my earlier connection "tree" = "oilfield"; so oilfields deplete, trees deplete.This is the problem with devising analogies: the terminologies don't often blend well.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '"')As the lowest-hanging, reddest, finest apples begin to 'deplete' . . . ."
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')ore apple trees can always be planted; more oil fields can't be. A whole new crop of apples comes in every year, and with good husbandry, it can be larger and better than the previous year's crop. Oil is about to go into terminal decline.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'a')re the best-quality apples always on the lowest limbs?
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EA', 'Y')ou just need to explain that the harvesting season is relatively short, (200 years), while the winter/spring is on the level of a few million years... We'll have a long wait for the next harvest.
Oh, now I LIKE that! Hmmm....
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'H')ow is oil renewable?
I read EA's comment as [irony]...[/irony]
Like a metaphor or a simile, an analogy either works well or it doesn't work at all, killjoy. The more I think about it, the more it seems to me that you're trying to force a square peg to fit a round hole. I know it's hard to face that fact after you've gone to the trouble to write something---something that reads well, BTW. But if I were you (and I know, I'm not), I would try to come up with a better analogy and go back to the drawing board, while perhaps salvaging some of the material from the apple orchard piece.
