Mnemonic summary of the connecting pattern of the argument?

Constrained, Unconstrained and Surprised in a Global Context (Part #15)

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It is intriguing to imagine that the complaex pattern of associations between metaphoric tales might be usefully presented as an array inspired by a magic square. The challenge featured in one form in ancient Rome where extensiive use was made of the Latin expression sator arepo tenet opera rotas in forming a 5x5 magic square of letters (known as the Sator Square). This could be read meaningfully horizontally, vertically and diagonally (Wladston Filho, Finding Magic Word Squares: is there a magic Sator Square grid in English? Code Energy, 3 January, 2018).

This evokes the question as to whether the key features of an argument might then be usefully arrayed for mnemonic purposes in any similar manner. The following is an experiment to that end. Clearly, as indicated by Benjamin Franklin's 8x8 and 16x16 squares (presented above), more complex  "squares" could be imagined to hold memorable patterns of connectivity of greater complexity. It mght prove possible to array sets of traditional fables in this way, for example (Exemplary fables of proportionate response, 2006)..

Tentative mnemonic summary of connecting pattern?

Faced with the rapid erosion of collective memory, the value of memorability in a complex global civilization can be variously clarified (Memorability, Mnemonics, Maths, Music and Governance : memory enhancement ensuring strategic credibility, 2022). Given the increasing tendency to divisiveness and violent conflict, the focal role played by the celebrated painting of Pablo Picasso -- Guernica -- suggests the possibility that some such array of insights might take such a "magic" form (Reimagining Guernica to Engage the Antitheses of a Cancel Culture , 2022). The "magic" is then understood to derive from the aesthetics of the connectivity.

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