✨ New essay with , illustrated by : numinous.productions/timeful/
We've previously written about a "mnemonic medium," which helps you remember what you read. Here we explore a different angle, extending a book in time to help it connect to lived experience.
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Interesting! I'm still not convinced how dismantling an antimetabole (or chiasmus) works better than the deployment thereof.
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I don't think we're suggesting that texts be dismantled, so much as extended and elaborated! But maybe I don't understand your concern?
Oh, I think you're referring to the Elements of Style example about parallel construction? In which case, yes! Lightweight prompts which scaffolded deployment may be even more effective.
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The point of figures of speech (parallelism, anaphora, chiasmus) is to aid memory. So wasn't sure how/why changing Lincoln's words helps you memorize what was memorable because of the initial construction.
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Ah, the presentation is a bit unclear, given the prior discussion of memory. The proposal in that example is to manipulate Lincoln's words not to help you remember them, but rather to help you practice and reflect on the idiom of parallel construction and S+W's comments about it.
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