> I myself have never claimed to be speaking metaphorically, nor used an obvious metaphor, so your sarcastic exchange (haven't I asked you to spare me it?) is rather off the mark.
I think we have very different rules of discourse, because I wasn't being sarcastic. Where I come from, that sort of conversation is what one goes through when a metaphor isn't understood. (If you claim that some statement is a metaphor, it is generally implicit that you understand it, and can thus explain it; so it is entirely reasonable for someone to ask you to explain it.)
Anyways, yes, I'll admit that it's possible that the original quote has (an intelligent) meaning. Hell, it's possible that timecube.com has such a meaning. I don't find either proposition terribly likely. My guess would be that Luce Irigaray is an intelligent woman who likes to say things which sound interesting; in this case, she was talking about things she didn't understand. It's possible that my guess is wrong, but you've provided very little evidence on this point.
I think we have very different rules of discourse, because I wasn't being sarcastic. Where I come from, that sort of conversation is what one goes through when a metaphor isn't understood. (If you claim that some statement is a metaphor, it is generally implicit that you understand it, and can thus explain it; so it is entirely reasonable for someone to ask you to explain it.)
Anyways, yes, I'll admit that it's possible that the original quote has (an intelligent) meaning. Hell, it's possible that timecube.com has such a meaning. I don't find either proposition terribly likely. My guess would be that Luce Irigaray is an intelligent woman who likes to say things which sound interesting; in this case, she was talking about things she didn't understand. It's possible that my guess is wrong, but you've provided very little evidence on this point.