the opening of west side story with the bird's eye shots of new york & the whistling & snapping holds an iconic place in my brain
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yeah. it's more like an earworm than an organizing principle. (but who knows, maybe i did)
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I think having an icon-capable mind is a prerequisite for narrativizing strongly.
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fair to say i have overactive pattern & symbol-seeking machinery. but i associate 'narrativizing' w/ overfitting data.
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out of control symbolic thinking leads to that. in control symbolic thinking leads to useful abstractions.

