Comments on: What does desultory mean? https://www.publicationcoach.com/desultory/ & Gray-Grant Communications Fri, 18 Jun 2021 18:58:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Daphne Gray-Grant https://www.publicationcoach.com/desultory/#comment-3335 Thu, 06 Mar 2014 01:03:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=7914#comment-3335 In reply to Bob.

Yes, but memory is strange. I’m counting on the circus reminding me of something being done without serious effort. The mind LIKES little jokes (I visualize a fat and lazy clown trying to jump horses and falling off) and I think this one will do the trick. Have you read Moonwalking with Einstein? If not, check it out! (It’s about memory.) I think you’d really enjoy it.

]]> By: Bob https://www.publicationcoach.com/desultory/#comment-3332 Wed, 05 Mar 2014 18:14:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=7914#comment-3332 Surely there is a problem in using the circus mnemonic for the MEANING of the word. The desultor jumped purposefully. Jumping in a desultory manner would result in disaster! Usage seems to have departed from the original meaning of jumping, and the noun hardly exists in English.

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