Monday, April 16, 2007

SOME TERMS

Assonance: a limited plan of action based on a conception of how, in a restricted phase of a conflict, to use effectively the available means of action to achieve a specific limited objective. Intended for use in implementing a wider strategy in a phase of the overall conflict.

Ballad: an area to which access is controlled through an entry point and limited to authorised, appropriately screened personnel and properly escorted visitors.

Couplet: a non-market mode of economic integration where goods are moved between symetrical groups.

Diction: unrestrained by convention or morality.

Foot: a minimum of defense against attempts at political or ideological recuperation by power or against repression.

Free verse: measure of disorganization or degradation in the universe.

Iamb: activities, transactions and assets, often illegal, which are not registered or otherwise acknowledged by respective state authorities.

Limerick: the system of cogs and chains by which power is transmitted from the periphery to the centre.

Line: an interruption in the train of thought perceived by the person as someone removing or taking away his thoughts.

Meter: arranging the members of a society into a pattern of superior and inferior ranks.

Pastiche: the imitating, copying or counterfeiting of products. Systematically breaching trade mark rights, patent rights, copyrights and other commercial rights.

Realism: a cage from which there is no escape.

Repetition: a delusion that the self or part of the self, part of the body, other persons, or the whole world has ceased to exist.

Sestina: traps based on control of the center or loss of control of the center.

Sonnet: the flanks of the opponent are attacked simultaneously in a pinching motion after the opponent has advanced towards the center.

Terza rima: any provision in a contract that allows one or more parties to end the contract upon the occurrence of certain events.

Tone: deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.

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