As was pointed out in connection with the discussion of Tuscarora, the phonetic realization of syllabated speech usually, for any given language, has more phonetic segments per lexical item than does the phonetic realization of slow-careful, casual, or allegro speech.

His drink, the running stream; his cup, the bare Of his palm closed; his bed, the hard cold ground: To this poor life was MISERY ybound.

Of course, that’s what they all say. But Trumponomics goes beyond the usual Republican assertions that cutting taxes on corporations and the rich, ending environmental regulation and so on will conjure up the magic of the marketplace and make everyone prosper.

The Gnostic depreciation of the cosmos and its creator aroused the ire of the founder and corypheus of the Neoplatonic School, Plotinus (205-70), who presided over an academia in Rome and possibly had a private mystical practice.