You are not being pedantic at all, friend. I must concede to you your point that it is true that one of those words does not belong and it is of course the third. Samizdat of course includes so much material which displays writer-diplomat skills that I mentioned, and so often for higher stakes as it often is with intellectual or literal guerillas. I sometimes forget how much my Americanized way of looking at the world colors my perspective -- thank you for giving me another one.

So perhaps it is the thing that needs to be dissented against, which polarizes existence itself into assent-dissent, by which I am harangued. And so I find myself, like that singer, musing upon how some Godhead must have forsaken us, the alternative avenue to our present fate being at once far more plausible and yet horrific.