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mwapwenis (mwapwe.miraheze.org) mi=what, sa=yes, hok=no, mabwena=understand Is catachresis not another form of catechesis? mastodon.social/@bilemasaroni
![[...] And yet in this wild ranging of the mind, a man may oft-times perceive the way of it, and the dependance of one thought upon another. For in a Discourse of our present civill warre, what could seem more impertinent, than to ask (as one did) what was the value of a Roman Penny? Yet the Cohærence to me was manifest enough. For the Thought of the warre, introduced the Thought of the delivering up the King to his Enemies; The Thought of that brought in the Thought of the delivering up of Christ; and that again the Thought of the 30 pence, which was the price of that treason: and thence easily followed that malicious question; and all this in a moment of time; for Thought is quick.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:saiur7cooa4crzy6ss3camgv/bafkreiczahfn7f3x5ox7alvjdz44rblzs7a5nmb4yk35o7tx7tov4sjdcu)
![[...] There be also other Imaginations that rise in men, (though waking) from the great impression made in sense: As from gazing upon the Sun, the impression leaves an image of the Sun before our eyes a long time after; and from being long and vehemently attent upon Geometricall Figures, a man shall in the dark, (though awake) have the Images of Lines, and Angles before his eyes: which kind of Fancy hath no particular name; as being a thing that doth not commonly fall into mens discourse.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:saiur7cooa4crzy6ss3camgv/bafkreihi6wiz73tigsshp6cyeu4acehx3zk2w6f7jhgutgzzcllh3xufea)
