Quite often you will discover, on examining the completed work, that there are serious flaws in the arrangement of the material, calling for transpositions.
This sudden transposition of our roles, this homage, coupled with the thought-swiftly expressed but as swiftly comprehended-" Here is the master I have sought, here is my dream embodied" !
The love of Levine and Kitty and their first years of marriage are a transposition of his own domestic memories, just as the death of Levine's brother is a melancholy evocation of the death of Tolstoy's brother, Dmitri.
For transposition, it is also a knowledge point. If the positions of two elements in an even permutation are exchanged once, it will become an odd permutation. If exchanged again, it will be converted into an even permutation.
Well, I recall perfectly how little, in my now quite established connexion, the maximum of ease appealed to me, and how I seemed to get rid of it by an honest transposition of the weights in the two scales.