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Antimetaboles: Sometimes You Eat the Bear

Antimetaboles: Sometimes You Eat the Bear

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

November 24, 202053m 4s

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Show Notes

Friedrich Nietzsche once observed that if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. That’s an antimetabole, a transposed repetition of words in successive clauses. It’s an ABBA configuration that seems to resonate with meaning, but why? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe gaze into the linguistic abyss once more.

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