We've all heard these: JUMBO SHRIMP, AUTHENTIC REPLICA, MILITARY INTELLIGENCE, HELPFUL CIVIL SERVANT and THE WAR ON TERRORISM (more obscure, but a bit more through-provoking in terms of semantics and shades of meaning).
With the following list, read each one aloud in your mind, and when you've finished, visualize the conflicting physical images. Then:
1) See how many of them you can easily remember;
2) See how many you can remember in the sequence in which they are presented. Incidentally, this is my collection of the best of the worst of these creatures:
Stretch those neurons....let them reach out and touch one another! Here we go:
A CAPPELLA WITH MUSIC
A FINE MESS
A FOOT AHEAD
A LITTLE BIG
ABSOLUTELY UNSURE
ABUNDANT POVERTY
ACCURATE ESTIMATE
ACTIVE NEUTRALITY
ACTUAL REENACTMENT
ACUTE APATHY
ALMOST EXACTLY
ALONE TOGETHER
ALTOGETHER SEPARATE
ALUMINUM BOTTLE
ANARCHY RULES
APPARENTLY INVISIBLE
APPEAR INVISIBLE
APPEARANCE HEARING
ATHEISTIC THEOCRACY
AUNT JEMIMA LIGHT
Try the above (and we're only in the "A" category!) and work this exercise. You will
find it invigorating. I could have provided you with a far longer list, but my friend Eric always tells me that "less is more." To me, this is a blinding flash of the obvious [ahem].
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