"My original title was perverse. However, I have never regarded myself as one to flee in the face of perversity. I chronically suffer from a pathological form of premature entitlement. When asked or required to present a paper, I usually invent a clever title and then expend much worrisome effort trying to justify it. My original title, "The Ethnohistory of Nonevents," was too clever by half - thus the revised title. André Gide remarked in one of his remarkable aphorisms from his 1899 La Prométhée mal enchaßné (translated as Prometheus Misbound, 1953) that a man writes a book not so much because he has an idea to express but to excuse himself for having had it. So with this paper."
-- Raymond D. Fogelson, The Ethnohistory of Events and Nonevents (1989)
