Provocative... or... as provocative as I am provoked

Passage uno: From Yates' The Art of Memory

I was wondering as I read the first chapter, if through the use of loci in the artificial memory one would eventually be unable to separate those memorized items from the memory of the place itself. For instance one might not be able to remember St. Peters Basilica without recalling the names of all the Smurfs (there were a lot of Smurfs). So here I find my fear confirmed in that "Aristotle says that some people have dreams in which the 'seem to be arranging the objects before them in accordance with their mnemonic system'- rather a a warning, one would think, against doing too much artificial memory." (31-32) Who really know what Aristotle talks about since Yates doesn't specify the context the allusion is truly used in.

Passage dos: From Ong's Orality and Literacy:

"Standard English has for ... a record vocabulary of at least a million and a half words... A simply oral dialect will commonly have... only a few thousand words." (8) Now I realised before that there were a vast number of words in the English language, more than any other, but I didn't really have clue as to the vast contrast. It does, however, confirm or reinforce a belief about English I formed long ago: It was practically created as a literary language, wit the tools necessary to be literally creative.

Such a vast vocabulary is perfect for for someone that wants to create in this language. It's like a crayon box. Spanish for instance ins the eight crayon box: Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, Purple, Orange, brown and Black. English gives us the 200 crayon box that has Periwinkle Blue, Stepped-on-Yer-Toe purple, dirty laundry Brown, and Mauve (to name a few). We even get the little crayon sharpener in the back of the box which is the Language's ability to adopt slang as real vocabulary (FYI Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is finally in Webster).

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