revisiting social etiquette
basic requirements
in civilized society
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How on earth did you develop such a style? Slicing and dicing and improvising structures on the fly; leaping rails with cogency intact; turning actions into extended modifiers. Syntactic subversion or infra-mince? Mortise-and-tenon craftsmanship or freehand brushwork?
The social policies observed are tense, clenched, convulsive, imperious; the social realities perceived are claustrophobic, desperate, abject.