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How many mental registers do you have? When reading, how long can a sentence drone on, adding levels and parentheticals and diversions, before finally landing, before you lose your ability to follow it? You must place each phrase in a register of thought. If no such register exists, then you start dropping meaning. And when you drop enough meaning, you fail to understand entirely. Or maybe I yap too much. But nobody questions gymnasts about why they do so many flips when moving from one corner of the floor to the other. They could just walk...