There are flashes of new wave, as on “Undisclosed Desires,” which could have been an unreleased Depeche Mode song with its dark exploration of psychosexuality: “I want to reconcile the violence in your heart.”

From 1796, the Director La Révellière-Lépeaux threw his weight behind the cult of Theophilanthropy, a somewhat whimsical form of philosophical Deism.

Practitioners of Reality Mining soon discover the multitudes of analytic techniques suitable for their data sets.

Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise / Expect with mortal pain.