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	English Matters Issue 8 - Plum Flowers Poetry of Witness Pseudorandom Poem Generator - Todd Pitt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This was the presence of parataxis in the poem.
		Parataxis is defined by the New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry And Poetics as: “a stylistic term referring paucity of linking terms between juxtaposed clauses or sentences, often giving the effect of piling up, swiftness, and sometimes compression.
		The poetry of witness is a new kind of poetry recently identified, compiled and edited by Carolyn Forche in her 1993 landmark anthology entitled Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness.
	www.chnm.gmu.edu /ematters/issue8/toddpitt/poemgen.html (1963 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
		It might be said, perhaps, in justice to this "seeker after righteousness", that his faults were the faults of his philosophy rooted in the principle that human nature naturally inclined towards evil and heeded to be constantly kept in check.
		Only once does he refer to Christianity (Medit., XI, iii), a spiritual regenerative force that was visibiy increasing its activity, and then only to brand the Christians with the reproach of obstinacy (parataxis), the highest social crime in the eyes of Roman authority.
		He seems also (ibid.) to look on Christian martyrdom as devoid of the serenity and calm that should accompany the death of the wise man. For the possible relations of the emperor with Christian bishops see A
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02109a.htm (2261 words)

	Is Baptism Necessary for Salvation?
		The form, language, and style "militate against Marcan authorship." There are seventeen non-Marcan words or Marcan words used in a non-Marcan sense.
		There is no instance of the typical Marcan stylistic transitions or methods (such as beginning a phrase with a parataxis).
		Overall, the passage has the "distinct flavour of the second century" and appears to be a pastiche of material taken from other Gospels.
	www.tektonics.org /af/baptismneed.html (3868 words)

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