While stumbling over this post (actually I came from FFFFound to the post about the hanging of the Murderous Mary the elephant) I realized that in another tab I have open the article from NYTimes about the way that nonsense we get through is sharpening the brain to see patterns where there’s none (or little).

The whole list of syntactically correct sentences you made up seems to work in somewhat similar way — priming the mind up to interpret and find meaning where there was none previously. And it looks like it’s the natural way imagination works.

There’s another side to the story — unless you collected the list in some technical and random way (flipping a coin or throwing a dice, choosing a word from column A to go with word from column B etc.), it works as a sort projection for what’s inside your own semantic word space and life context at the moment. One of the tricks in the creative practice of therapists that’s used when there’s need to align conscious and submerged parts of the mind.

Thank you for the post, Ashleigh.

I guess I could use some of those lines as an inspiration that might come handy in upcoming national novel writing month in November. Thanks.