Not a prison house but a swamp: recent morasses of language

This essay amuses me because it is quintessential joculum; setting out to be something succinct and clear, it ends up engaging in some of the most complicated grammatical constructions I have ever essayed, and ends up in a place quite different from the one from which it set out, and pursuing a quite different goal. What else is new?

My other note, written this morning, is reasonably straightforward. This one is ridiculously convoluted, or perhaps merely ridiculous.

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