Two places that sparked my interest and engaged the moments of conversation in Erard’s See through Words is when he first talks about he firsts talk about in the first paragraph “If you could ask Dante where he got the idea of life as a road, or Rilke where he found the notion that time is a destroyer, they might have said the metaphors were hewn from their minds, or drawn from a stock of poetic imagery.” I know what your thinking it’s the first few sentences in the article why would you do this? Well I picked this because throughout my life, my family has always said something similar to me as life as a road to tech me life lessons and teach me life is not gonna be easy once I grow up (I wish they weren’t right about that part). It made conversation popped up in my head because it just brought back all the old conversations I have with my family and everything. The second place that sparked my attention in Erard’s article is when he says “If you say the brain is a machine, that’s a metaphor that needs no furniture. As soon as they hear it, people will understand that the brain can break, and that it can be fixed.” That spoke to me and made me think of conversation because most people including me until after reading this didn’t really think of the human body like a metaphor or like a piece of furniture. It just made me think more carefully because I don’t want to break my brain even though I know it can be repaired.