The Divine Power of the Language of the Holy Qur’an II

Barber and Barber in their book "When They Severed Earth From Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth", ….. This single word (porridge), no matter what context we hear it in, can instantly evoke the whole narrative complex of goldilocks and the Three Bears, the bowls of steaming porridge, the messy beds…..  The same instant access to the same narrative is given by the perfectly well-formed, syntactically uninteresting English sentence, "Who's been sleeping in my bed?"  Formulaic language of this sort binds a speech community with invisible semantic fetters."