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The Monday Morning Memo

Paired Opposites and Third Gravitating Bodies*

A Gravitating Body is anything that tugs at your attention.

Two gravitating bodies with a high degree of divergence are known as Paired Opposites. 

Employ them and you’ll get attention.

But when you add a third gravitating body – something highly divergent from both of the first two – and it fits – you are Lin-Manuel Miranda.

First Gravitating Body:
A musical about the Founding Fathers

Second Gravitating Body:
George Washington is black and most of the other “white” characters are played by minorities as well.

Third Gravitating Body:
The dialogue is delivered in rap music, with each character having their own cadence and style.

The degree of divergence is determined by how unexpected a thing is.
Its power of convergence is determined by how well it fits.

This formula is known to all the Cognoscenti of Magical Worlds.

 

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