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INPRIMATU
All layers of a sentence
  • The phrases are icebreakers traveling through the Arctic. Some have a thin helmet, even the softest blows. There are many solid layers. They can collide against the rocks on the coast and strongly resist the height.
Endika Biota Piñeiro @BiotaEndika 2020ko urtarrilaren 28a

Some phrases, verses, paragraphs, songs, books have a lot of readings. Ability to break icebergs against proa. They keep messages of many senses trapped in words.

Let us take the following:

“Broad eyes, new maps are folded. There is no way because everyone has to open them” (Urbizu, G.; 2014).

First layer: meaning. The words are well placed syntactically and the relationship between the subject and the predicate sends a clear message. The emitter means to the receiver two things: one, open your eyes, because the new maps are folded, and another, that there is no way, because it is the one who has to open them.

Second layer: being able to extrapolate the message to another topic. The current political environment, for example. Eye-opening can be a metaphor for being attentive and the growth of the new political partisan maps. Care should be taken of those who say that they are going to renew democracy from top to bottom, because there may be a lie in the folds. It will be stressed later that real political change begins in oneself, as the roads drawn on the map are false directions. So the revolution has to start with you. If you want to change something, change yourself.

Third layer: Ability to deal with universal issues. For example, pain, joy or dryness of time. Let's imagine fear. Let's imagine that a person with pathological insecurity reads the phrase, a person who fears the future, having children, in general, life. Urbizu says the answer lies in the strength of his self-esteem. The skills to get out of the well (new maps) are hidden (folded) and you can only see by opening your eyes. On the other hand, that no one will be able to save it, that the encouragement or praise of others will dissolve immediately. In other words, to avoid fear, it has to break its own paths.

Fourth: syntax. Cheating with the rules that set the order of words and the formation of sentences to create new meanings. Depending on how you read the words, how you put the commas and the dots in your head, meanings like this or like others will emerge. In the author's phrase, both the maps and the roads can be opened:

A 20-year-old can be advised to open his eyes to the dirty society he hates. Supposedly closed maps to locate these new maps. Banishing biases and fixed ideas and opening new paths

“Open your eyes. The new maps are folded, there is no way, because everyone has to open them.”

By placing the scoring marks in another way, the maps are the ones that open up and not the roads. So far, the road has been opened up. Despite the rigorous difference, the meaning changes.

The fifth has to do with age, that is, the phrase, like the book "The Little Prince," is going to make you feel the different sensations you read each year. For a 12-year-old, it can be a message that doesn't judge others, that even if someone doesn't look good at the first moment, the important thing is their personality. And it doesn't matter what others say.

A 20-year-old can be advised to open his eyes to the dirty society he hates. To find those new maps that say they are closed (those who think like him). Banishing biases and fixed ideas and opening new paths.

When the 60-year-old grandmother does not understand her niece, she will remember that teenagers are folded, that her ugly wrinkles are extrafalarian cranks and impossible piercings. It needs to be highlighted by them themselves, because sometimes the best advice is not to give advice. So that that nephew and teenager who loves so much can follow his path. Meanwhile, it opens its eyes because under those pests is the loved one.

The last one, which is found in the bowels of the boat, is a dense compressed core: the ability to shape the darkest secrets of oneself. Words surprise you and you feel like someone shouts your most intimate misery.

And all of a sudden you're naked. After a collision with an iceberg. In the center of the Arctic.