In the Philippines and other parts of Southeast Asia, the problem was compounded by a new kind of plastic packaging that took flight in the 1980s — the sachet. It was a plastic pouch but often bulked up with layers of aluminum or paper for shape or durability. […] Sachets are cheap, flashy and convenient.

I saw all shapes of death, And minister’d to many, o’er the plain While carnage in the sun-beam’s warmth did seethe, Till twilight o’er the east wove her serenest wreath.

Then we would start a massive international ad campaign to lure tourists and rich old settlers. Something like . . . ‘Come and bury yourself in the map of Tassie.’ Could just work.

However, comparative register research shows that the old stereotypes about the stanceless nature of academic writing are to some extent accurate.