Insofar as it remains to be seen there has still been, despite
assiduous efforts from erudite persons across all academic disciplines, nothing
which could be described as agreement or at least a nonconfrontational lessening
of active hostility, in the realm of intellection or mentation, which is to say
within the confines of that which might be called consciousness, or the arena of
purely mental activity and operation, howsoever it could be remarked, should one
wish to evoke yet another reason or issue about which to cavil and interlocute
seemingly inexhaustible permutations of verbal ordnance for the mere sake of
maintaining or defending, against common sense and sound judgment, a thesis or
hypothesis which under normal circumstances and about which there would be no
controversy, it seems prudent at this point to at least, and for the benefit of
all parties, to come to terms and to asseverate collectively that there are, at
the very least, certain items of general knowledge, which is not to say
available only to those with experience in the higher institutions of learning
or - lacking formal acquaintance or intercourse with edifices especially
manufactured for the intersubjective continuance, analysis, and maintenance of
data pertaining to the human species - solely to the industrious autodidact,
which ought to be considered axiomatic and incontrovertible, without which any
subsequent discourse would by necessity entail the common and perpetually
frustrating occurrence of virtually universal confusion and instability of
linguistic compatibility and mutually prosperous cooperation among sentient
individuals and organizations or affilliations of persons among whom there is at
least a general inclination towards providing for themselves and all potentially
involved descendents a medium of communication which is not succeptible to the
hazardous implementation of ambiguous terminology or dubious parlance.
- Wilbert Morley Handsock, from Navigations of the Meridian Indent, 1879
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