is it too trivial to ask is this a scale too trivial to ask about to ask if it is more tragic or more poignant that the child had hoped to finish i.e. e.g. the candy bar before he (was) (shot) can the tragic be poignant and vice versa and verso and recto and the pant cuff gets caught in the spokes and e.g. the anonymous rider falls off the bike and the optics of the horizon is questioned on the spot by the Mennonite Italian who feels his father watch(ed) too many Sinatra movies and puts too much ham in his omelets

catastrophe theorists say that if we backtrack along the previous path there will be no catastrophe this time i.e. not this time