I clicked the link hoping to expand the metaphor into some object level example that applied in this case but instead just found more metaphor (at least, I hope what I found was more metaphor) :P
A concrete example might be the story in your post. I’m not familiar with the book but from reading a summary, it sounds like Jacen was being eaten! And was convinced to collaborate with his own consumption by the very same shadowmoth story!
I clicked the link hoping to expand the metaphor into some object level example that applied in this case but instead just found more metaphor (at least, I hope what I found was more metaphor) :P
A concrete example might be the story in your post. I’m not familiar with the book but from reading a summary, it sounds like Jacen was being eaten! And was convinced to collaborate with his own consumption by the very same shadowmoth story!
Okay yep fair’nuff.
Here’s a non-metaphor!
“Cryptobenthics do one thing particularly well: getting eaten.”
I guess the moral of that is, don’t be a cryptobenthic.