“Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon looking toward Damascus.”
Ivory tower is used as a term for isolation from reality.
The word is commonly used to describe scholars who develop interests that are independent of the needs of the real world. But how this expression evolves from a simile of a neck to its present-day meaning remains unclear.
Some people viewed universities as ivory towers.
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