overheard

"nations dogs dangerously underpetted, say nations dogs."

"no he didn't mean that! if he'd meant that, he would have used words that meant that!"

"after clinging to their foreclosed chicken ranch for two years, two women gave up the fight and killed themselves and all their pets just before the marshals seized the property" (adapted from A,W,P).

we concede now "a history of ability for a history of volition."