I like to claim the lineage of reacaire, defined by Dineen as “an auctioneer, a seller, a reciter, a story teller, a gossiper, a poet's repetitor, a ranting female.”

Eftsoones she causd him vp to be conuayd, / And of his armes despoyled easily […]

Sumerian civilization lasted for an entire Platonic month from 4000 to 2000 B.C.

One sign of despair is the peremptory contempt of the condition which is the ground of hope; the going on not only in terrours and amazement of conscience, but also boldly, hopingly, and confidently in wilful habits of sin.