How to think a puppet

According to Fauconnier and Turner, a new blend begins with (however many) input spaces, and 'cross-space mapping' connects what is common between the input spaces to create the 'generic space'. Lakoff and Johnson demonstrate how metaphorical thinking derives from such bodily experience and it begins before birth in the unborn child as s/he moves in the womb. [...]the very perception of objects is shaped by bodily interactions with them, and it is this that The Table, by reason of Moses's incredibly limited physical world, plays with. [...]it offers no possibility, ever, of change, growth, and 'seeking', either through the barren environment he is in or the solitary existence he leads. Because puppets have a limited physical range distilled from the subtleties of the somatomotor system of the puppeteer, they always begin their physical encounter with us differently, and hence, I would argue, provoke a different level of emotional response from, say, Hamlet or Hedda Gabler.