I use a lot of film images analogies and imagination.
Analogies it is true decide nothing but they can make one feel more at home.
After all the past is our only real guide to the future and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.
A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.
My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.