Frank Kogan

Yes, but aren't these invocations at least sometimes interesting, even when not elaborated upon? Would you necessarily want people to stop naively invoking the gods on their behalf? It's true that most people aren't fessing up to the fact that these are invocations, but then again, most people aren't very self-analytical.

Perhaps the envoy who serves two masters is secretly trying to become his own man.

Can there, someday - after you've written your book and mastered Kuhn, of course (or not) - be a Mark Sinker Anatomy Of Influence to supersede the flawed Bloomian Anxiety of same?