Chronology and linearity, the up-down and left-right spatial orientation of script and text as a phenomenon sacrosanct to this Western culture and civilization, may be viewed as both reason and cause of chronology and linearity of thinking in reading, writing, and interpreting meaning, the categories of time and space being both an advantage and a disadvantage when operating in the field of creating, processing, and rendering meaning through words. The prime necessity for an interpreter in consecutive interpretation appears to move away from linearity into an open and dynamic mind space by employing a principle of diagonality in noting the succession of ideas and their ideographic representation, enabling one to lexically operate in several semantic fields and groups of synonyms in their mutual interrelationships at a time, while noting them in the logically structured arrangement in form of modern quasi-hieroglyphics.
