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From: "John Varela" <OLDla...@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: What metaphor am I trying to think of?
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On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:17:22 UTC, Harvey Van Sickle <harvey.n...@ntlworld.com>
wrote:

> I'm missing a metaphor:  the one where something initially co-exists 
> well with other things in its environment, but eventually grows so big 
> -- without intending to -- that it absorbs or squeezes out everything 
> else around it.
 
A mushroom?  A balloon?

Alice and the DRINK ME in the White Rabbit's house?

The children's story about "little pot boil"?

Spread (or grew) like wildfire, weeds, or a plague?

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John Varela
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