Title : Mystic chords/mystical cord.
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Mystic chords/mystical cord.
I'm reading "The Not-So-Secret Weapon in the Special Relationship/Queen Elizabeth offered a mystical cord to the past that held together the U.S.-UK alliance" in Politico.We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Note the "of"s: bonds of affection... chords of memory... chorus of the Union... better angels of our nature.
Hear the music: chords... chorus... angels. The angels will touch the chords and the chorus will swell.
Given the prominence of the phrase "mystic chords of memory," you probably don't want to write "mystical cord." You've added an "-al" to "mystic" for no discernible reason, and you've changed the musical "chord" to some sort of ligature. I think of the tangle behind the computer, then of an umbilical cord. Unless you're playing with the shift from "chord" to "cord," perhaps using Lincoln's "bonds of affection" — "bonds" and "cords" are things that connect — you don't want to get that close to a famous phrase. It can't look accidental.
And this almost surely was accidental — a "tow the line" for "toe the line" type of misunderstanding. The word "cord" only appears in the headline. "Mystical," however, appears in the article:
[T]hrough no fault of his own, [Charles] simply cannot provide the semi-mystical link to the past that his mother came to represent to the whole world.
Oh! Elizabeth was only semi-mystical! (Is that anything like "semi-fascist"?)
But we see "link" and that suggests the other word of connection "cord," but the headline-writer almost surely changed "link" to "cord" because he had a feeling that "cord" sounds better after "mystical," and he had that feeling because of Lincoln's "mystic chords." Writers, please, you need to be conscious of why you have the feeling that words go together and notice when something is off.
Some chords of memory are mystic, and some are dissonant.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Note the "of"s: bonds of affection... chords of memory... chorus of the Union... better angels of our nature.
Hear the music: chords... chorus... angels. The angels will touch the chords and the chorus will swell.
Given the prominence of the phrase "mystic chords of memory," you probably don't want to write "mystical cord." You've added an "-al" to "mystic" for no discernible reason, and you've changed the musical "chord" to some sort of ligature. I think of the tangle behind the computer, then of an umbilical cord. Unless you're playing with the shift from "chord" to "cord," perhaps using Lincoln's "bonds of affection" — "bonds" and "cords" are things that connect — you don't want to get that close to a famous phrase. It can't look accidental.
And this almost surely was accidental — a "tow the line" for "toe the line" type of misunderstanding. The word "cord" only appears in the headline. "Mystical," however, appears in the article:
[T]hrough no fault of his own, [Charles] simply cannot provide the semi-mystical link to the past that his mother came to represent to the whole world.
Oh! Elizabeth was only semi-mystical! (Is that anything like "semi-fascist"?)
But we see "link" and that suggests the other word of connection "cord," but the headline-writer almost surely changed "link" to "cord" because he had a feeling that "cord" sounds better after "mystical," and he had that feeling because of Lincoln's "mystic chords." Writers, please, you need to be conscious of why you have the feeling that words go together and notice when something is off.
Some chords of memory are mystic, and some are dissonant.
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