[Yves S L]

There is conscious logic and there is unconscious logic, and there are degrees with which a person is conscious or unconscious of their own reasoning. It has become a fad to favour and promote unconscious logic, because most people are not capable of being aware of their own minds (unconscious logic is a lowest common denominator phenomenon).

In each situation, I personally resolve to the more standard/common rhetorical situation; that is, the snail in the jar, the man lost in the woods. To create a reading of the more nonstandard/uncommon more metaphorical rhetorical situation, then the writer would have to go out of their way to set it up, and set it up properly, and not rely on possible grammatical ambiguity.