Episode 10.25: Rhetoric as a device to lay hold on ideas that might otherwise be lost forever.

Rhetoric as a weapon in the armoury of ideas that allows us to grasp in an instant some fleeting fancy that might otherwise escape us forever, even though most such ideas do in fact recur. Connections to trusting our intuitions and pursuing them even though they may prove misguided because in the process we may develop other insights that can be transferred to more fertile locations rather as a beneficial gene can be transplanted into other DNA.