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This reminds me of Sun Tzu's Art of War. His writing certainly is a kind of poetry, but the lines and stanzas are broken down not only by semantics, as done by
by hydrox24 8y ago
This reminds me of Sun Tzu's Art of War. His writing certainly is a kind of poetry, but the lines and stanzas are broken down not only by semantics, as done by Buckminster Fuller, but also by concept.
Ventilated prose isn't only useful for reading; it is also useful for memorising.
As an addendum, I wonder how much of this is down to poor typography obscuring the rhythm of the text in the first place. Perhaps this is a good substitution for anything that doesn't reach the level of a book or big report. Good for anything that doesn't quite deserve typographic treatment by a pro.
- alan-crowe 8y agoExample of memorising: trying to keep the definitions of open and closed formulae straight. Shoenfield writes "A formula A is closed if no variable is free in A." which I memorised laid out as A formula A is closed if no variable is free in A