— The index
Four chapters, one quiet life.
The essays of Symbolism & Metaphor are arranged into four chapters — each one a different way of reading the everyday: its symbols, its repetitions, its small persistent meanings. Pick a lens, or read them in order.
Chapter I
Travel
Maps as memoir. Why we leave, what we look for, and what the road quietly returns to us.
Chapter II
Love
Relationships read as texts: their plots, their patterns, the recurring images we cannot quite explain.
Chapter III
Living
The metaphor of the morning routine. Of the room you choose. Of dinner with friends on a Wednesday.
Chapter IV
Reflections
Quieter essays — on grief, on growing older, on the symbols that survive us.