More words

Listening to the Japanese composer Susumu Yokota, I decided to take some words from his song titles and try some word association. There was nothing that I particularly liked apart from the spool idea below, which I might possibly use or go on to adapt in some way.

Cage = ‘she walked as if the cage door had just been opened.’ ‘She walked like somebody had just turned the key in the lock of her cage.’

Spool = ‘the bullet made him spool to the ground.’ ‘And with a spooling motion he dropped to the ground.’

With the last one I think there’s a nice contrast, the spooling slows the action and makes him linger and the dropped finishes him off, picks up the pace.

This activity has certainly made me think about the language I use in a lot more detail and will be something I continue to experiment with - though only the most useful or interesting results will be posted.