Indledning
In December 2020, An ode to naps by James Parker, appeared in Atlantic Magazine.
Parker uses a very delicate language to describe pros and cons by napping. Many linguistic devices are used. He writes as if a nap is a person and uses anthropomorphism.
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Uddrag
Parker loans a quote from Bertie Wooster, saying “my usual nine hours of the dreamless” and afterwards he doubts scientist and ask them if they know what they are doing.
By appealing to self-awareness (Logos) and what people think is better for themselves.
“Mix yourself recklessly with insensibility”, a metaphor that appeals to the raw “human-ness”, a state where we don’t want to know what’s best for us, we do things as taking naps, because we feel like it.
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