Given my fondness for chiasmus (that word order switcheroo mentioned in this week’s podcast, i.e., “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”) I was delighted to discover that someone had written a book on this “King of All Rhetorical Devices,” named (chiasmus-y enough) “Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You”
The author of the book, Dr. Mardy Grothe, has several pages dedicated to chiasmus and the famous people who have used it (including Churchill, Shakespeare and Confucius – and, of course, the greatest speaker of them all: Cicero).
And speaking of remarkable speakers, behold the mighty wisdom of… The Sphinx!
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