MY SHORTEST POST YET

 Since I brought up my essay COORDINATING ORDINATION 2 in the course of a new line of thought in ICONIC PROPOSITIONS 2, I found myself asking myself: "Given that I'm founding this theory on the twin literary processes of *trope emulation* and *icon emulation,* did I ever really define how tropes and icons relate to one another?" I offered a definition of tropes long ago, back in 2018, but the best breakdown is that tropes describe actions: "orphan must learn the secret of his birth," "hero may refuse the call to adventure but must in time answer said call and do heroic things." In contrast, icons are like "solidified" tropes, concretized into particular entities, forces, or settings in order to invite the identification of a work's audience. And that, for once, is "'nuff said."