Desert island discs

[Cynical Ninja]

You don't make any sense, CN.

Here we go, one more time. Just for you.

Memorization and learning - helps the brain stay active and healthy. Indisputable. I didn't choose the dictionary, but if I had, I wouldn't be "reading" it like a novel. I'd be using it to stimulate my brain with those types of activities, like you'd use the pictures in your book to stimulate your soul.

"Looking forward" doesn't mean erasing all memory or feelings from the past. As my brains and memory remains strong, so does retention of things past. Looking forward means anticipating or focusing on what's ahead. I can focus on the present and the future while remembering the past, without stagnating or moving backwards. I do it every day - the geography is irrelevant.

I don't really put much stock in other people's "secret to my success..." claims, even here where there's lots of room to focus on success over solo survival. I really don't know or care what, if any, role the dictionary has played in success stories.

No I'm afraid you don't either.

When you said you would take puzzle books onto the island that made perfect sense but I'm afraid it doesn't matter how you try and rephrase or re-explain it a dictionary makes no sense.

To me a dictionary has two roles, 1 - looking up rude words when you are a kid (lol) and 2 - used as a reference in combination with something else, another written work which you don't have on the island anyway.

Sorry I just don't find endless lists of random words in alphabetical order intellectually stimulating. I could create elaborate fantasies and flights of fancy in my mind, no dictionary necessary because thoughts are purely conceptual.