The nine "treatises" (tractatus) of the Summa devitiis are subdivided into "parts" (partes) and "chapters"(capitula). Any of these divisions vary considerably in length.The treatises, for example, vary from a little over two pages (TreatiseI) to 114 pages (Treatise 4) in the edition of Lyon1668. The divisions occur in the earliest manuscripts and are alsoreflected in a table of contents (tabula) that stands before theactual beginning of the work in most manuscripts. To these original divisions,modern editors have added occasional subtitles within certain chapters,especially very long ones; these tend to vary from edition to edition andare not always very consistent logically. The following survey is an attemptto give an idea of the structure of the Summa, following the medievaldivisions as indicated above but using modern titles. The Latin titlesand subtitles can be found in the sections called "Outline" underthe individual sins.
A man is found by a dog walker in a forest; his face severely torched, it seems he has been strangled to death, and he has the year 1991 carved into his chest. Days later, a second victim is found also with a number carved into his chest. Does Antwerp have a serial killer? Where is Professor T when you need him? In Flemish with English subtitles.
The subtitle also operates as a trailer to a motion picture - albeit that just as some trailers leave you with the feeling of having already seen the film, so some subtitles induce a distinct déjà vu. Let's check the American politics section, shall we? Charlie Savage's Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy. (Hmm.) Kevin Phillips' American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush. (Wait a minute.) Frank Rich's The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth: The Real History of the Bush Administration. (What's going on?) Craig Unger's The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War and Still Imperils America's Future. (Haven't I just read this?) Michael Moore's Stupid White Men ... And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! New Edition with Added Extras, Completely Updated, New Foreword: The Number 1 Bestseller. (Ah, now I get it.) Harriet Lamb's Fighting the Banana Wars and Other Fairtrade Battles: How We Took On the Corporate Giants to Change the World. (Next!) At its worst, the effect is a gobful of sententious clichés. For Al Gore's assault on prose, The Assault on Reason amply suffices: nothing is added by How the Politics of Fear, Secrecy and Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision-Making, Degrade Democracy and Imperil America and the World except the sense of a Nobel Prize fashionably squandered.
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