‘Offering its little squares and cubes of word
As figured substitutes for reality,
A mummified mnemonic alphabet,
It helped the unseeing Force to read her works.’The mummified mnemonic alphabet refers to the Reality being preserved (mummified) through sound symbols (alphabet). Alphabets with their sounds are a representative symbol through which the Reality is expressed and preserved in memory (mnemonic). Mnemonics are aids to remember something else that is difficult to preserve in memory otherwise. Mummification is to preserve something that is dead, a once living experience, for example, is preserved through memory in the form of words.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
