People have sex, even the religious ones. Yet, when sex is transferred into words, suddenly it’s dirty, vulgar, immoral, trashy. Funny huh?

Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least; nor are those empty-hearted whose low sounds reverb no hollowness.

It was Colonel Parkman who upped stakes, crossed the border, and named our town, thus perversely commemorating a battle in which he’d lost. (Though perhaps that’s not so unusual: many people take a curatorial interest...