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semantic dancing at the verbal cafe
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Thu Nov 09 2000 at 9:47:23
I am a
devotee
of
witty
conversation
.
Dinner parties
that I
attend
have been known to last up to four
hours
, with the
breezy banter
flying fast and thick. At such dinner parties, we often try to
emulate
the legendary
Algonquin Round Table
.
I developed the notion of a semantic dance as a result of these dinner parties. A semantic dance is a witty
verbal
exchange between two or more people. One of my
favorite
semantic dances is what i call the Topical Hop. Much like
word association
, the Topical Hop consists of "
hopping
" quickly from one
topic
to another, so long as they are
related
. In one such Topical Hop, I and a
friend
went from
Thomas Aquinas
to
Rodgers and Hammerstein
in six "hops." One could
think
of the topical as a sort of super-mini
live action
Everything2: finding a
string
of connections that join seemingly
disparate
topics.
Another semantic dance I shamelessly
appropriated
("
stolen
" is such a
harsh
word
) from
Tom Stoppard
's
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
, namely the
game
of
Questions
. The two "
dancers
" can only speak in questions. Not permitted are
repeated
questions,
grunts
, and
non sequitur
s. A further
challenge
is to keep the
pace
quick;
hesitating
before
replying
results in a
loss
.
A third semantic dance is the
Innuendo
Tango
. This dance consists simply of speaking in a string of innuendoes. Again, the challenge is to keep the pace brisk.
More semantic dances are always possible. The
basic
"
floor pattern
" is simply
two-fold
:
sharp wit
and
brisk pace
.
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chaos
Algonquin Round Table
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
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