Object: Cape/Cloak (from Entertainment Discourse [Batman])
Career Discourse:
Title: The General Theory of Economics
Use: (html this)
"Having a bad stock day? Going to jump out of a window?
Here's a cape, at least you'll look cool and possibly have fun flying down .."
Family Discourse:
A cape is large and thick, and can act as protection. My parents are very protective of my brother and I; this leads to them constantly telling us that they love us (weird for a Chinese family!)
I also imagine where I went to high school as a cape. Plano, TX [actually very odd that that football stadium picture Jim put up a few months ago was from Plano (Senior High School) .. memories ..] My friends and I used to joke that we lived in the "Plano Bubble".
(Truman show - seriously)
Nothing bad ever really happened in Plano, the school system was great, and we were innocent. The cape could also suffocate. Perhaps this is a better word for what Plano was than protection?
Community Discourse:
A cape - as was introduced before - woven together, possibly like mesh (all the different communities that make us unique) and tied together at the neck, or possibly fastened with a jewel, something valuable.
The jewel holds the cape up - without it, the cape would crumple and fall. The jewel itself is what makes us human, what makes us unique - our consciousness, it ties together all of our memories and what we are involved in.