meaningful (or maybe the only correct?) partitioning scheme?  I think
    you must mean it as a toy, and so won't belabor it here, except to ask,
    cursorily, how you distinguish a purpose from a reason, a script from
    a history, or a description from the whole melange?

not my example, and my reading of it is still hedged with uncertainty,
so you need to ask js if his intentions are honorable -- i was just
assuming that he took it seriously.  this gang of twelve was the
bottom of the top twenty-five, 