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"a dream-wide street with droshkies all awry under incredibly blue skies, which, farther away, melt automatically into a pink flush of memorous banality".
And never needed no better word. It still feels like a last resort to me, but perhaps that's because mnemonics is a little hobby of mine. I can't read the word without thinking of such things as the Master Peg System, or the loci method of Simonides, and whathaveyou. Who knows. Perhaps Nabokov would have preferred tswum's memorous. (He was no stranger to obscure words!)
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Mnemonic is about the odd object, perfumes, shreds of music that bring back strong, unexpected and complex memories. I think an old postcard, a madelaine biscuit, a passing little breath (breeze?)of air, a sound - can do that wonderfully.
I like that word mnemonic since I came to know it.
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In Bog Latin mayhaps, and that was my intention. Latin flatus 'breathing; wind; snorting' is one of those medical Latin euphemisms.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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a madelaine biscuit"Proust, in his first book, wrote about, wrote about ..." (A script and a video.)
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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("a dream-wide street with droshkies all awry under incredibly blue skies, which, farther away, melt automatically into a pink flush of mnemonic banality"),
And never needed no better word. To this native speaker it clashes too harshly with the more common noun meaning of mnemonic that Hydra and others speak of.
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I think it would unclash with rapidic sonority.
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“Rapidic” sonority? Is that the sound of one hand clapping fast?
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I think it would unclash with rapidic sonority. But does it clash with rabinic seniority? rabidic slobberity? raponic salacinority?
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a madelaine biscuit"Proust, in his first book, wrote about, wrote about ..." (A script and a video.) That's for sending me off on a two hour Monty Python viewing marathon zmjezhd! (Curse YouTube's related videos window).
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