[lit-ideas] Re: New Program in Psychoanalysis and Culture

> No confusion here. "Waft" = "to be driven or carried along, as by the air"
> evokes the image of floating here and there. "Waffle," like "waver" imagines
> a choice among options, the chooser being unable to make up his or her mind.
> That is precisely why wafting from one proposition to another is a fair
> description of brainstorming, in which the censor is turned off and the mind
> allowed to flow freely,

I agree, and IF used in such a way, your earlier equation to
'brainstorming' is very apt. I just think a few other people may not
have been using it that way; and I still think a person thoughts
'wafting' is an awkward metaphor.

p
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