I hate that thing where it makes more sense to read an essay from the inside out. Luhman's book on self-reference is like this: if you start at the beginning you're fucked, but if you start at the middle and leak outward then you have a chance.

Taxis is a canon of rhetoric! Get it right, people! I want Narratio, Partitio, Refutatio, Confirmatio, Peroratio!