Since the eighteenth century, sex has not ceased to provoke a kind of generalized discursive erethism.

Destroying a rabid dog is required by law.

The inflood of support set the stage for a classic narrative denouement in which the underdog triumphs, the villains repent, and the heroes all live on the network happily ever after. But real life rarely resolves as neatly as fiction. The e-mail campaign failed to persuade the university to keep Project Gutenberg alive.

Inadvertently, however, oligarchs had overlooked the one major flaw in their laconization policy which the radicals seized upon to whip them into tacit agreement on imperialism. To be specific, laconization in foreign affairs.