Oop. Now there, in fact, is a good example. I instantly "knew", I had a very
serviceable "understanding", "thought", without verbalizing, of what I'd done
to send my last posting by accident before finishing it.
To continue from when I so rudely interrupted myself:
I picture an engineer in the bowels of a ship just hit by a torpedo. He's
struggling to reduce the inflow of water, and to get his engines starting
again.
He "grasps" what's happening, "understands" what must be done -- all of which
mental activity occurs without his verbalizing any of it.
Movie-makers take advantage of this awareness of how thoughts always come
before verbalizing -- indeed are very often not verbalized at all. Our hero,
about to be garretted, kicks backward into the crotch of the villain, flips him
over the shoulder, stomps on his neck. The audience "grasps" it all, verbalizes
none of it.
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