A fantastic binomial

the Rodarian what-if
of Pinochio's dream
reinscribes his stiff puppet life
with a shrewd business sensibility
for telling purposeful lies
as a competitive manufacturing strategy
which whirls him into international trade
(through the calculated harvest
of huge quantities of lumber extracted
from the end of each lengthening falsity
grown on his wooden nose)
and when partnered
with his carpenter-friend, Geppetto,
becomes one of two radically rich commerce captains
who collectively control the world's timber industry

and

the incredible force of inertia
with which children
are systematically taught
to contain their imaginations
within the strictures
of formulaic storytelling
appears to place unfair weight
on their ever-expanding definitions of syntax
until the coupling
of conceptual binomials
offered in the spirit of deleuzoguattarian assemblages
juxtapose seemingly disparate theories
so as to conclude each traditional story told to them
with a very resonant 'what if?'

"In the "fantastic binomial", the words are not
taken in their daily meaning, but freed from the
verbal chains that hold them together on a daily
basis. They are "estranged", "shifted", thrown
against one another in a sky that has never been
seen before. Hence they are in the best possible
condition for generating a story."
(Gianni Rodari, 1996)

"To be rhizomorphous is to produce stems and filaments
that seem to be roots, or better yet connect with them
by penetrating the trunk, but put them to strange new uses.
...Many people have a tree growing in their heads, but
the brain itself is much more a grass than a tree."
(D&G)