A Description Of Description. Description, an excess, a guided tour, an incarnation. Description is orderly, systematic, but has been traditionally under suspicion for its impulse towards the chaotic. Its essence will not be destroyed by this intervention. The detail becomes overloaded, becomes the sign or the allegorical figure.
Description is said to make something visible and description encodes the hidden.
Thus, description is a writing of a journey, a tracing out of language. Like architecture, description creates a space, and marks it with the body of its writer and the bodies of its readers. Don't Forget The Banquet. In De Oratore, Cicero recounts the origin of the art of memory. Scopas gives a banquet and insults Castor and Pollux.