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From the Ted Talk by Béatrice Coron: Stories cut from paper

Unscramble the Blue Letters


It's all if. So what if we were living in bloalon houses? It would make a very uplifting world. And we would leave a very low footprint on the planet. It would be so lhigt. So sometimes I view from the inside, like EgoCentriCity and the inner circles. Sometimes it's a gbolal view, to see our comomn roots and how we can use them to catch dreams. And we can use them also as a safety net.

And my inspirations are very elcitecc. I'm influenced by everything I read, everything I see. I have some stories that are hmruoous, like "Dead Beats." (lhtuegar) Other ones are historical. Here it's "CandyCity." It's a non-sugar-coated history of sugar. It goes from slave trade to over-consumption of sugar with some sweet moments in between. And sometimes I have an emotional response to news, such as the 2010 Haitian earthquake. Other times, it's not even my stories. People tell me their lives, their memories, their atirosapnis, and I create a mindscape. I channel their hrstioy [so that] they have a place to go back to look at their life and its possibilities. I call them Freudian cities.

Open Cloze


It's all if. So what if we were living in _______ houses? It would make a very uplifting world. And we would leave a very low footprint on the planet. It would be so _____. So sometimes I view from the inside, like EgoCentriCity and the inner circles. Sometimes it's a ______ view, to see our ______ roots and how we can use them to catch dreams. And we can use them also as a safety net.

And my inspirations are very ________. I'm influenced by everything I read, everything I see. I have some stories that are ________, like "Dead Beats." (________) Other ones are historical. Here it's "CandyCity." It's a non-sugar-coated history of sugar. It goes from slave trade to over-consumption of sugar with some sweet moments in between. And sometimes I have an emotional response to news, such as the 2010 Haitian earthquake. Other times, it's not even my stories. People tell me their lives, their memories, their ___________, and I create a mindscape. I channel their _______ [so that] they have a place to go back to look at their life and its possibilities. I call them Freudian cities.

Solution


  1. balloon
  2. common
  3. global
  4. eclectic
  5. light
  6. laughter
  7. aspirations
  8. history
  9. humorous

Original Text


It's all if. So what if we were living in balloon houses? It would make a very uplifting world. And we would leave a very low footprint on the planet. It would be so light. So sometimes I view from the inside, like EgoCentriCity and the inner circles. Sometimes it's a global view, to see our common roots and how we can use them to catch dreams. And we can use them also as a safety net.

And my inspirations are very eclectic. I'm influenced by everything I read, everything I see. I have some stories that are humorous, like "Dead Beats." (Laughter) Other ones are historical. Here it's "CandyCity." It's a non-sugar-coated history of sugar. It goes from slave trade to over-consumption of sugar with some sweet moments in between. And sometimes I have an emotional response to news, such as the 2010 Haitian earthquake. Other times, it's not even my stories. People tell me their lives, their memories, their aspirations, and I create a mindscape. I channel their history [so that] they have a place to go back to look at their life and its possibilities. I call them Freudian cities.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
york city 4
artist book 4
public art 3
identical words 2
long time 2
library material 2


Important Words


  1. aspirations
  2. balloon
  3. beats
  4. call
  5. catch
  6. channel
  7. circles
  8. cities
  9. common
  10. create
  11. dreams
  12. earthquake
  13. eclectic
  14. egocentricity
  15. emotional
  16. footprint
  17. freudian
  18. global
  19. haitian
  20. historical
  21. history
  22. houses
  23. humorous
  24. influenced
  25. inspirations
  26. laughter
  27. leave
  28. life
  29. light
  30. lives
  31. living
  32. memories
  33. mindscape
  34. moments
  35. net
  36. news
  37. people
  38. place
  39. planet
  40. possibilities
  41. read
  42. response
  43. roots
  44. safety
  45. slave
  46. stories
  47. sugar
  48. sweet
  49. times
  50. trade
  51. uplifting
  52. view
  53. world