¶ Mental Mouthfuls
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Mental Mouthfuls:
“. . . I have found myself from time to time spontaneously and almost unrestrainedly preoccupied in writing out my thoughts, which as I reconsidered them and redefined them eventuated in the present volume, which I call ‘mental mouthfuls and ventilated prose’ which may be poetry also. . . . My proposed reorientations . . . involved utter obsolescence of ‘nouns’ and survival only of verbs . . . to attain more accurate communication, whose new vocabulary . . . had to be translated into ‘everyday’ language. . . The intuitive doses did not correspond to the conventional syntax. . . The next step in putting the piece to use was to recombine the phrases with dashes, commas, asterisks, and illustrations in such a manner as to seemingly eliminate the ‘poetical’ aspect without losing the ‘mouthfulling’-- in which final form it was employed effectively.”
