I CONSIDERED DRAFTING a post on alliteration, but rethought that strategy. Why draw attention to a device I choose most often to avoid?...

IN ACT 3 of Hamlet, Prince Hamlet offers instruction to a troupe of actors. Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you,...

WITHOUT RELEVANCE, history is little more than entertainment, a benign curiosity. History can be shy about giving up its secrets. It...

This is, or should be, item #1 in the writer's catechism. The shy, fabulous, satisfying, all-knowing point.