that we sometimes represented activities
&gt; as relations, where the relation really contains a number of things
&gt; the activity is related to, including perhaps a reference to itself,
&gt; but not other representation, which is not quite the same.

But, really, I cannot be responsible for the ways that other people talk!
I can talk till I am truly "blue of face" (BOF), but, without the purple
tinge of authority, who under heaven would listen up to my scarlet prose?

I can think that I see a way to untan