One sign of despair is the peremptory contempt of the condition which is the ground of hope; the going on not only in terrours and amazement of conscience, but also boldly, hopingly, and confidently in wilful habits of sin.

Sumerian civilization lasted for an entire Platonic month from 4000 to 2000 B.C.

Eftsoones she causd him vp to be conuayd, / And of his armes despoyled easily […]

I like to claim the lineage of reacaire, defined by Dineen as “an auctioneer, a seller, a reciter, a story teller, a gossiper, a poet's repetitor, a ranting female.”