Discontent Warning : this thread contains aerobatics by Allen Tice that may upend sensitive people on topics including the eardrums of Roman deities; the Third Paeon ('opalescent')*; Research and Development of a hyperreal badger, and whether pigs have wind.
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Above all it is necessary to conceal the care expended upon it so that our rhythms may seem to possess a spontaneous flow, not to have been the result of elaborate search or compulsion. -- Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, 9.5.147.