Juxtapose This!

The Power of Juxtaposition.
 
Quoting sample from  John Coleman Wood
(late 70’s  Warren Wilson grad,   UNCA
Anthropology professor:  interviewed re
his novel  The Names of  Things)
 
 
“I’m interested both as an ethnographer and
as a teacher in the power of juxtaposition,
 
of one thing being set up next to another thing,
and the meaning that bleeds across the space
between them. . . .
 
You can tell people an idea. But as a teacher
and as a student, I often think  it’s better to
let people, including myself, figure it out,
to see for myself.
 
Especially when two very unlike things are
juxtaposed, it almost compels the human
brain to resolve the gap, to make sense of
what  doesn’t make sense.”
 
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 A couple of names for born-again things:
 
    Caesarean Short Cut: 
               Go ahead
               Tell them.
               Pontificate.
           Draw the bridge.
            Show the link.
      Eliminate the mess & guess
      pain & confusion oops oh
      my sonovagun  it takes to
             work IT out.
     Say what you are going to say,
     Say it. Say what you said.
 
   Full Labor Delivery
       Splish Splash
         Forget about it.
           Can’t say if it’ll
             emerge or not
                to my liking:
         conform with my  aims,
        objectives,  measurable
                 outcomes.