"You're a big metaphor guy. I like that, it makes you sound smart," Owen Wilson's character Mobius observes of Loki, in his eponymous new Disney Plus show.
He's right, of course, humans love a good metaphor. They help us expand our vision by connecting the new with the experienced. Melissa Burkely, who is both a novelist and a psychologist, wrote, "Metaphors are not just a literary technique; they are a psychological technique."
