[lit-ideas] Re: housekeeping
- From: "Paul Stone" <pastone@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:06:08 -0400
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> *Not sure if this is what you're looking for. I've personally never heard
> of it.
>
> http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm
>
> 45. Antimetabole*: reversing the order of repeated words or phrases (a
> loosely chiastic structure, AB-BA) to intensify the final formulation, to
> present alternatives, or to show contrast:
>
> * All work and no play is as harmful to mental health as all play
> and no work.
> * Ask not what you can do for rhetoric, but what rhetoric can do for
> you.
>
> Ursula,
And again thanks. You saved me not from myself, but myself from me.
antimetabolising,
phat boy slim
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