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METHOD_OF_LIGHT

                                             November 23, 2009

  Prisms, mirrors, lenses
                                      FUNCTION_OF_WORD_PATTERNS

    Consider these as techniques
    for working with ideas.                Consider alternative
                                           techniques.  Does the
        Take an idea, and apply            metaphor of light
        each of these to it                suggest other tools?
        in sequence.
                                              Color
           Look at the results.               filters.     (red eye caps)
           Is there a promising
           line in any of the                 Lasers,
           transformations?                   ray traces.

               Apply each tool                Night vision
               again, in sequence.            goggles.

                  Conduct triage:
                  choose a line                   Remember: the lens
                  to continue                     can be concave or
                  transforming.                   convex.

                                                     And degrees of
    "Triage"? Now it's                               magnification
    military/medical                                 can be so extreme,
    metaphors, eh?                                   as to be differences
                                                     in kind.
    Okay, add that as
    another "technique":                                    The spy glass
    rephrase the ideas                                      and the
    using a different                                       observatory.
    base metaphor.
                                                            The hand-held
    Since you are not                                       lens and the
    *actually* talking                                      microscope.
    about light, there's
    no reason you should      SIMILARLY
    *not* "mix metaphors".

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