Sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one ...

Expressions linking space to time are a common part of our day to day lives. You might say the morning “flew by”, or that school exams are “fast approaching”. Right now, you might say summer is “just ...

Across languages, spatial words are commonly used metaphorically to describe more abstract domains, like time (long movie) or pitch (high note), but the reverse is relatively rare. By some accounts, ...