Thrashing a Metaphor

One of the passing activities of that stupid course was a funding pitch sugared as a business-friendly explanation of "What's in a cell?" and how that relates to cancer. To be presented in no more than 12 minutes given less than a day's notice; said day already programmed with other stuff from morning to night.

As a result of my vehement abdication from one of those programmed tasks, I wound up largely responsible for my group's effort, which centred around a shameless but unexpectedly persuasive metaphor. A PDF, obviously, can give no real impression of my seat-of-the-pants presentation -- and, to be honest, it's pretty much a blur to me too -- but here it is even so: evidence of wanton analogy abuse. (It's nearly 14MB, so be warned.)

If all of this were actually in the service of something worthwhile, well, I'd feel a little happier about it.
Posted by matt at March 31, 2008 10:50 PM