Status Updates From Columbo: A Rhetoric of Inqu...

I'm into the section about how to use Columbo's techniques, and I'm paraphrasing a physicist's quote about theologians: "I climbed a mountain to learn rhetorical strategy and, when I got the top, an elicitor was there waiting for me."

Petition to drag words like sophrosyne and eudaimonia into the English language to capture their larger meaning, since "temperance" and the abysmally vague "happiness" fail to really capture their meaning.

Noting for later, need to find "The Hero in Transition" and Roland Barthes' "Mythologies" for deeper thinking on the socio-rhetorical construction of the stories we tell ourselves and each other.