“That didn't capture my interest.” What does that mean, that phrase? What does it mean for something to capture your interest? What is your interest? That idiom, “My interest” has so many meanings. But for our purposes, you interest is your curiosity. So how does something take from you your curiosity? How is it captured ? Well, of course it's not – not literally. It's a metaphor, Vincent! Why do you take everything literally? Because everything has a literal-metaphorical meaning. We keep idioms around because they're useful. Because they're interesting. So what does it mean when we say that something has captured or captivated our interest? It means that we're compelled to give the thing our attention. But what does it really mean on an esoteric level, and why does our attention need to be captured ? Why can we not give our attention to what we want to? Because we aren't curious about everything. I go through this all the time. There wi...
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