It would seem self-evident that the indirect allusion to a particular phenomenon or entity without precisely allocating a literal connotation or denotation, as it were, to its presence in any definite sort of context is a practice that may not be unlike other less-than-ideal rhetorical constructs, which, however valid they may be considered by those with an osseous relic to dissect, are nevertheless honored more in the, shall we say, breach than in the verifiable concrete happenstance that might otherwise be noted.

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Mark