A paper for literature of the American West

writing a paper on this book and about language.
language is fake.
it is not real.
language is both the problem and the solution to the unnatainability of the real (stuff).

a metaphor is a good metaphor for this predicament.
a metaphor has two parts.
one is real.
one is not.
the real one gets described by the not real one.
a metaphor: God is love.
God is real.
love is not.
love describes God.
God is described by love.

once God is described by love love puts God in a love shaped box (a heart?).
This is a problem because God is more than love.

And now, it gets crazy.

sometimes the metaphor is flipped.
love becomes God.
Someone does something good out of love and there is a manifestation of God.
This is not a problem.
This is a solution.