How do you dislodge words you've read from your head?

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IThinkICan29

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I don't know what's wrong with me. Maybe I'm having a break down. I read, Eric Jerome Dickey's Chasing Destiny yesterday and for some reason, "do the Mo, do the Mo, do the Mo" is stuck in my head. I mean, I was standing in line at the grocery store with a stupid grin on my face--imagining the characters in the book doing the silly dance Dickey described as "the Mo". Gosh, just thinking about it makes me want to laugh right now. HELP!! :flag: I've never had this happen before. Songs on the radio...sure, they have lyrics (that repeat, rhythmically) but never words from a book. Tell me, have I lost it, has my brain finally gone on a trek around the coocoo's nest?
 

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Oh, no. It happens to me. In fact, I'm rereading the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde, and I keep imagining the Cheshire Cat appearing--grin first, of course--on people's shoulders, on ledges, etc.

Yes, I'm aware the Cheshire Cat is from Lewis Carroll, but Fforde uses the Cat as the librarian in the Great Library in his Thursday Next series.
 

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Read something else. Then at least a different phrase will stick. Or write something you particularly like.

(Ha - Jasper Fforde does that to me all the time! (not the Cat specifically; usually the Well.) Must be that imaginotransference technology.
 

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I recall these catchy lyrics for a catchy fictional theme song for a fictional TV show on mathematics in the novel "The Demolished Man":

Tenser said the Tensor,
Tenser said the Tensor,
Tension Apprehension and Dissension have begun!

These words have been rattling around my brain like a few b-b's in a 55-gallon barrel for the last 25+ years or so.

ETA: And this is an essential part of the plot.
 
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