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I don't know the joke wow, but your comment about stuttering relates back to the language acquisition and processing thread. Apparently, song lyrics are stored in or processed by the music center of the brain rather than the language center, permitting people like Mel Tillis to sing beautifully although they cannot utter three words in succession. I wonder whether poetry is similarly separated from general language processing. The tendency of early literature to be in poem suggests interesting possibilities regarding neurological development.
Speaking of which -- has anyone else read the fascinating The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind? (Or something like that ... speaking of the breakdown of minds)
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