Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 11:54:24 EDT From: A Big Bowl of Cybernaughts Organization: Heavy on the Zero's, Please? Subject: FILLER: Killing Me Softly? (p. 20) "...the imagery of slaying is a special case of transformation, and transformation involves the ideas and imagery of _identification_. That is: the _killing_ of something is the _changing_ of it, and the statement of the thing's nature before and after the change is an _identifying_ of it." From A Rhetoric of Motives Kenneth Burke University of California Press 1969