Contemporary curating has become an absurdity. Outfits are curated. Salads are curated. Twitter feeds are curated. Bennington College in Vermont invites prospective students to curate their applications.

On Wednesday evening, Wales posted this note on Wikimedia Commons: […] “I think our existing policies here on commons are sufficient to deal with the problem – with the minor exception that many things should just be speedy deleted and argued about later. […]”

And in the days of Noah, the rector added, pausing in the act of choosing a cigar, if not in salons, then at their marryings and feastings, their vintagings and gossipings round fountains while the pitchers ran over.

It would be natural to suppose that it is classical logic (or some near thing) that lays rightful claim on the status of this ur-science.