Yes, exactly! Referring back to the spectrum between episodic and diachronic 
personalities, it strikes me that the regular accusations I get of non 
sequitur, are something like hairpin turns in my (always bad) rhetoric. It's 
also just plain fun to do it and I wish others would do it to me as often as I 
do it to them. ... golden rule and all.

But I prefer to think of it not as any kind of smooth ephemeris, but as a 
scattered sampling of the larger space. When I'm actually trying to lay out a 
game to my fellow discussants, I'm trying to splat some paint on the parts of 
the space I think are particularly convoluted, with little pockets of 
can't-get-there-from-here.

Good presenters/writers don't do that, of course. They form complete sentences 
and attempt to draw lines between the dots. I'm impressed by such people in the 
same way I'm impressed by skilled violinists. But I have no interest whatsoever 
in playing the violin, either. It's way more fun (and effective) if you provide 
*some* dots and let each connect them (or not) as they please.

On 7/28/19 3:47 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
How about Hairpin rather than Crooked?    Some just don't make the turn.  They 
cannot see what is right there.

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