... this distorting of equivocall words, which passeth commonly for a triviall peccancy, if it be well examined, will be found a very dangerous admission; for me thinks this may be termed a verbal adultery, as it vitiateth and corrupts the property of another, which would have remained innocent without that sollicitation, and therefore seemeth much a souler fault, than a single incontinency of our own words.

In this form of desublimated control through liberation the degenitalization of sexuality effects a depoliticization, or rather the distancing of a politicized erotics from the intentionality of the centered subject.

Most reports of supernatural occurrences turn out to be flim-flam when carefully investigated.

When I faint and fall by the wayside of my cares, it [a cup of favor] shall give me strength to bear up, as the refreshments of your sympathy seem to flow from its lip, and when I thirst, it shall be as one of the consecrated fountains of my relief.