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From the Ted Talk by Stewart Brand: The Long Now

Unscramble the Blue Letters


And it's not a mine. This would be a nuanced evocation of the basic structure of the mtuinaon, and you would be appreciating it as much from inside as you do from outside. This is aitueccrtrhe not made by building, but by what you very carefully take away. So that's what the mountain taught us. Most of the amazingness of the clock we can borrow from the amazingness of the mountain. All we have to do is hihlgghit its spectacular features and blned in with them. It's not a clock in a mountain — it's a mountain clock. Now, the Tewa idnanis in the Southwest have a saying for what you need to do when you want to think long term about anything. They say, "pin peya obe" — welcome to the mountain.

Open Cloze


And it's not a mine. This would be a nuanced evocation of the basic structure of the ________, and you would be appreciating it as much from inside as you do from outside. This is ____________ not made by building, but by what you very carefully take away. So that's what the mountain taught us. Most of the amazingness of the clock we can borrow from the amazingness of the mountain. All we have to do is _________ its spectacular features and _____ in with them. It's not a clock in a mountain — it's a mountain clock. Now, the Tewa _______ in the Southwest have a saying for what you need to do when you want to think long term about anything. They say, "pin peya obe" — welcome to the mountain.

Solution


  1. highlight
  2. indians
  3. mountain
  4. blend
  5. architecture

Original Text


And it's not a mine. This would be a nuanced evocation of the basic structure of the mountain, and you would be appreciating it as much from inside as you do from outside. This is architecture not made by building, but by what you very carefully take away. So that's what the mountain taught us. Most of the amazingness of the clock we can borrow from the amazingness of the mountain. All we have to do is highlight its spectacular features and blend in with them. It's not a clock in a mountain — it's a mountain clock. Now, the Tewa Indians in the Southwest have a saying for what you need to do when you want to think long term about anything. They say, "pin peya obe" — welcome to the mountain.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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collocation frequency
alexander rose 6
national park 6
danny hillis 5
good time 3
national forest 3
pretty interesting 3
pine cone 2
long term 2
design problem 2
deep time 2
long view 2
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private land 2
clock experience 2
mount washington 2
bristlecone pines 2
long time 2
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bristlecone pine 2
billion dollars 2
competent rock 2
jeff bezos 2
lincoln canyon 2
easy hike 2
schell creek 2
creek range 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
great basin national 2
basin national park 2
schell creek range 2

Important Words


  1. amazingness
  2. appreciating
  3. architecture
  4. basic
  5. blend
  6. borrow
  7. building
  8. carefully
  9. clock
  10. evocation
  11. features
  12. highlight
  13. indians
  14. long
  15. mountain
  16. nuanced
  17. peya
  18. southwest
  19. spectacular
  20. structure
  21. taught
  22. term
  23. tewa