praeteritio

• = As Professor E. Fantham points out to me, this _praeteritio_ takes the place of a full _aristeia_ detailing —  The Last Poems of Ovid
• Y'know, David, a more cynical devotee of praeteritio than myself might ask why it's always the icons of the Civil Rights movement and opposition to the Vietnam war, and their dirty hippie associates, who're responsible for American's Loss of Faith-Based Obeisance, while the avatars of Televangelism, the Op-Ed columnist proponents of Entrepreneurial Heroism, in fact the whole, neon-lit, whirling edifice of the abiding American Monomaniacal Quest for Short-Term Profits, get off scott-free? —  Bats Left/Throws Right

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