Posted by zeugma on February 27, 2005, at 20:45:13
In reply to Re: Provigil » zeugma, posted by ed_uk on February 27, 2005, at 8:15:44
> Hi Z!
Hi Ed!
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> Glad to hear you're doing better :-)
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Thanks :-)> >I can see why I combined the two in my first trial. After I see a cardiologist, I might consider the combination, but with the ritalin dose very low, i.e. 10 mg at most. My pdoc indicated that this was a possibility. But the tachycardia was too severe to make me want to touch Ritalin again except under close supervision.
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> Did you get cardiovascular side effects from low-dose Ritalin? Perhaps you only need a low dose to 'augment' the Provigil. What do you think?I think it's a possibility. I'm trying to see what the Provigil does, first. I do have some experience with it, but I am at a higher dosage than I was before, and I want to see how I respond to it before introducing another factor. >
> >Provigil causes a 'single-mindedness' that is both good and bad.
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> What do you mean?
>It's hard to shift attention. For example, I was just doing the dishes, and a telemarketer called, and whereas i would normally politely say that now wasn't a conventient time (it actually wasn't) I listened to the spiel and tried to answer the questions, though I was aware I was giving increasingly dumb answers to questions about my shopping habits (I shop at the store down the block, I don't know it's name, I don't pay attention to these things!). Meanwhile valuable time was passing, and it took me about ten minutes of absurd interrogation before I could concentrate enough on the matter at hand to politely excuse myself. On ritalin I would have immediately told the woman that it was much too late for a survey and hung up. But on the tail end of Provigil I was thinking about one thing: the dishes. I couldn't focus well on this new intrusion. Does the example make sense?
> >I have trouble with attentional shifting, and inattention (daydreaming) is something of a problem
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> Do you think that Provigil actually makes you daydream more?
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Yes!
> I'm afraid I didn't understand your definition of zeugma. It's a cool name!thanks! Zeugma is a grammatical pun. I'll give you an example:
Atoms or systems into ruins hurled,
And now a bubble BURST, and now a world.-Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Man." The zeugma is in the verb 'burst', which governs the two nouns in the second line, 'bubble' (he is talking about the South Sea Bubble, a major economic disaster) and 'world.' Obviously bubbles (especially economic ones!) burst in a different way than worlds, so the incongruence between the two nouns governed by the single verb is heightened. He speaks in another poem of a lady "who lost her heart, or necklace, at a ball." Again the verb 'lost' means two different things- it's being used figuratively and literally at once.
-z
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