26th February, 2024.
Right … Shal-a-mal-a-bing-bong … ?
I’m up early: for my weight management course.
And wondering one thing.
Earworms, right?
We know what earworms are.
They’re songs that are stuck in our heads.
What’s the equivalent for a phrase?
The reason I ask … ?
Is that I’ve woken up with the phrase ‘Shal-a-mal-a-bing-bong’ banging through my head: after seeing Florence Pugh being interviewed … and confessing she though of Dune Pt 2 costar, Timothée Chalamet, as Timothée Chala Mala Bing Bong.
Beyond calling it an ‘adab’ — which Herbert’s original Dune novel defines as “… the demanding memory that comes upon you of itself”*— I don’t know what to call that.
I may have to turn it into a song …
~≈∏≈~
