Phora Quotes

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Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we are dead our corpses are devoured by different kinds of worms according as we are fat or thin? In fat corpses one species of maggot is found, the rhizophagus, while thin corpses are patronized only by the phora. The latter is evidently the aristocrat, the fastidious gourmet which turns up its nose at a heavy meal of copious breasts and juicy at bellies. Just think, there is no perfect equality, even in the manner in which we feed the worms.
Joris-Karl Huysmans (Là-Bas (Down There))
ANTHYPOPHORA  (ANTHYPO'PHORA)   n.s.[   figure in rhetorick, which signifies a contrary illation, or inference, and is when an objection is refuted or disproved by the opposition of a contrary sentence.Smith’sRhetorick.
Samuel Johnson (A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One)
Il y aura un après au déluge.
Nicolas Lévesque (Phora: Sur ma pratique de psy)
reason is much more prosaic, and is simply that meta-phora is Greek for ‘carry across’ (meta = ‘across’, phor = ‘carry’). Or to use the Latin equivalent, meta-phor just means trans-fer.
Guy Deutscher (The Unfolding Of Language: The Evolution of Mankind`s greatest Invention)