The last point we wish to address is the misassociation of waveforms, or cycle skipping.

Most of the changes in the world happen because someone thinks of an idea and wants to make money out of it. No, that's how those cottage industries, to use your words, get started. The crap begins when some bastich in a suit sees that the small entrepreneur is making money, and wants in on the deal: I see your idea is working, and I want a piece of it, so I'll play organizer for you in exchange for the lion's share of the profits. Unless, of course, you WANT to stay small forever - we can make sure you stay THAT way, too. The person who actually thought of the idea in the first place eventually becomes inconsequential in terms of the money-making engine.

But—(see our European corresponde to-day)—but—the authoress of the hooped circle, the Empress Eugénie, has appeared in public without hoops. A revolution is in prospect, to which ’93 is pale! Hoops, avaunt! Down on your knees, feminine provincialdom, and hear the resistless ukase of the Empress Eugénie! New Yorkeresses, obey! Off with your hoops! So much for the swelling sham-!

[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.