This is about tuning into the subtlety of the ways we string together words so that people’s minds can have a pleasantly cohesive and creative experiences through every reading or listening moment.
I’m a virgo so this could all be strangely nuanced or representative of a simple grammar and writing rule. Nonetheless, it’s absolutely fascinating to me in the way our imaginal realms dictate so much of how we experience life.
Consider this sentence:
“Both sentences evoke images and stoke my imagination in very different ways…”
When I say "evokes images and stokes imagination" my mind starts to interpret with subtle vividly of everything associated with "stoke," "imagination," "images."
Then, when I hear the thing that happens to them, in this example "different ways," my mind takes the images made by mind prior and acts upon those that which is, "different ways." I have all these abstractions building in the brain and now I get to do, "different ways," to them. Fun!!
Now, if if I switch it up... What happens when I read the sentence and first see, "in different ways?"
My mind has to work to try to figure out and make something up that's contextually reasonable ... Mind says, "what the hell is "different" and in what ways can this something that I have no imaginal concept of interact with these juicy and evocative words like "stoke?"
In that short moment the mind has tirelessly tried but failed to interpret and construct a reasonable image for “in different ways.”
But THEN, thank you, help arrives! Ahhhh, another ideas of stoking and evoking save me from this mess I just failed to envision!
But wait, shit!
Things are getting clearer, but it’s a drag! After I was set up and left to my own devices to interpret an impossible message, you're asking me to make sense of this message with more "images" and things that "stoke the imagination." Shit, well I can kind of do it but I'm having trouble letting go of this other little mind hiccup that left me with my pants down.
Ah yes, "in different ways they both convey images and stoke the imagination." Well, great, now you just robbed me of my imaginal opportunity, though momentary, and I'm left with this soggy sandwich trying to make sense of a thing that doesn't even exist ("different ways") meanwhile trying to reconcile that with the following provocative abstractions like "stoke" and "images."
I would much rather enjoy the experience of setting the right and left brain up for success: "both evoking images and stoking my imagination, differently..."
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