In MODERN ATHENS, the vehicles of mass transportation are called metaphorai. To go to work or come home, one takes a "metaphor" - a bus or a train. Stories could also take this noble name: every day, they traverse and organize places; they select and link them together; they make sentences and itineraries out of them. They are spatial trajectories.... Every story is a travel story - a spatial practice.

Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life (Berkeley, Cal.: University of California Press, 1984) p.115