ObliqueStrategies

(Organic) machinery.
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A line has two sides.
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A very small object. Its center.
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Abandon normal instruments.
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Accept advice.
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Accretion.
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Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a stricture).
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Always first steps.
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Always give yourself credit for having more than personality.
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Are there sections?
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Consider transitions.
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Ask people to work against their better judgment.
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Ask your body.
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Assemble some of the elements in a group and treat the group.
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Balance the consistency principle with the inconsistency principle.
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Be dirty.
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Be extravagant.
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Be less critical more often.
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Breathe more deeply.
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Bridges -build -burn.
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Cascades.
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Change instrument roles.
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Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency.
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Children -speaking -singing.
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Cluster analysis.
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Consider different fading systems.
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Consult other sources -promising -unpromising.
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Convert a melodic element into a rhythmic element.
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Courage!
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Cut a vital connection.
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Decorate, decorate.
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Define an area as 'safe' and use it as an anchor.
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Destroy -nothing -the most important thing.
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Discard an axiom.
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Disciplined self-indulgence.
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Disconnect from desire.
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Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them.
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Distorting time.
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Do nothing for as long as possible.
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Do something boring.
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Do the washing up.
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Do the words need changing?
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Do we need holes?
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Don't be afraid of things because they're easy to do.
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Don't be frightened of cliches.
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Don't be frightened to display your talents.
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Don't break the silence.
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Don't stress one thing more than another.
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Emphasize differences.
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Emphasize repetitions.
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Emphasize the flaws.
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Faced with a choice, do both.
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Feed the recording back out of the medium.
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Fill every beat with something.
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From nothing to more than nothing.
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Get your neck massaged.
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Ghost echoes.
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Give the game away.
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Give way to your worst impulse.
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Go outside. Shut the door.
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Go slowly all the way round the outside.
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Go to an extreme, move back to a more comfortable place.
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Honor thy error as a hidden intention.
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How would you have done it?
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Humanize something free of error.
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Idiot glee (?).
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Imagine a caterpillar moving.
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Imagine the piece as a set of disconnected events.
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In total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly.
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Infinitesimal gradations.
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Intentions -nobility of -humility of -credibility of.
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Into the impossible.
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Is it finished?
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Is the intonation correct?
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Is there something missing?
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It is quite possible (after all).
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Just carry on.
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Left channel, right channel, center channel.
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Listen to the quiet voice.
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Look at a very small object, look at its center.
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Look at the order in which you do things.
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Look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify them.
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Lost in useless territory.
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Lowest common denominator.
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Make a blank valuable by putting it in an exquisite frame.
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Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate.
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do and do the last thing on the list.
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Mechanize something idiosyncratic.
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Mute and continue.
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Not building a wall but making a brick.
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Once the search is in progress, something will be found.
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Only a part, not the whole.
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Only one element of each kind.
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Overtly resist change.
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Put in ear plugs.
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Question the heroic approach.
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Reevaluation (a warm feeling).
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Remember those quiet evenings.
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Remove ambiguities and convert to specifics.
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Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities.
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Repetition is a form of change.
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Retrace your steps.
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Reverse.
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Short circuit (example; a man eating peas with the idea that they will improve his virility shovels them straight into his lap).
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Simple subtraction.
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Simply a matter of work.
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Spectrum analysis.
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State the problem in words as clearly as possible.
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Take a break.
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Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance.
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Tape your mouth.
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The inconsistency principle.
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The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
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The tape is now the music.
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Think of the radio.
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Tidy up.
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Towards the insignificant.
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Trust in the you of now.
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Turn it upside down.
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Twist the spine.
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Use 'unqualified' people.
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Use an old idea.
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Use an unacceptable color.
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Use fewer notes.
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Use filters.
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Water.
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What are the sections sections of?
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What are you really thinking about just now?
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What is the reality of the situation?
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What mistakes did you make last time?
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What would your closest friend do?
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What wouldn't you do?
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Work at a different speed.
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Would anybody want it?
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You are an engineer.
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You can only make one dot at a time.
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You don't have to be ashamed of using your own ideas.
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