Quote of the Day (1/29/11) (Owen Barfield Week II)

So it is that, in the age of the movie, the student of words who is unfashionable enough to examine their history as well as their current use, is not perhaps so impressed as some others are by the universal practice of projection not only in movie houses and on the television screen, but also as a concealed metaphor, in the ingenious fancies of men. Is projection itself being projected?
--Owen Barfield, Rediscovery of Meaning 74