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Help!
There's a word on the tip of my tongue and I can't find it. It's something like paradigm or diagram-- and it means, vaguely, a mental model to help you think of something (ironic, isn't it?). Other wrong words that are coming into my mind instead are parallax and proxy, which makes me think it might have a p and an x? Man. I had this same thing happen the other day... I was picturing an art historical drawing (that I still can't find) of two men bowing painfully low, and couldn't think of the word sycophant, and then it appeared days later as a title of a friend's painting. I do really like all these words that are hyperlinked; they all have a picture-of-a-picture elegance and complexity, but I'll be indebted to you if you can help me find the one that eludes me.
Signed,
Your word nerd
P.S. If anyone can think of the drawing that I thought was called "The Sycophants" that'd be awesome too. My poor shrunken brain.
posted by gala @ 2:19 PM
7 Comments:
A mnemonic (device)?
hey Gala
this is Brett Walker
friend of the Billups two
and neighbor of sorts, or at least frequenter of the same parks
I noticed you were short listed for the Biennial, congratulations,
I also noticed, after snooping around on your website, that we were both in the On, Of, and About Paper back in May
small world
it is a small world! i've been digging for my paper catalog, but can't find it-- was yours sculptural?
hmmmm... is there a hint in these hyperlinks as to why you called me??
Shannon said...
mnemonic?
oops missed the first post, via nightly wine nipping
mnemonic is a great great word, and does the trick for the concept i was looking for, but it's not the ONE-- still fishing. oh-- and i'm not pregnant (that i know of)... as the last hyperlink implies. i was just checking online to see if pregnant women's brains stayed small after their proven shrinking. checking online for my brain's sake. sheesh.
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