Desiderata

From Plastic Tub

desiderata am. 1. Objects or information essential, but absent. 2. Fragments in need of a sojourner to assemble them; the sojourner himself. 3. All information travelling along the associational filament. 4. A catalyst for adduction.

Extrapolation

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Contemporary scholars often cast the entire Associationalist movement as a kind of modernist Desiderata, akin to Gretel's objection ot the oven.