Strata at Troynovant:
an alternate, Topical Contents via StrataLinking,
some index slices or view-lines within the Troad
  

These strata at Troynovant are not entrenchments, nor concreted Platonic forms with sharp edges. The named topics are alternate streets through Troy-town, uncovered ways of perception, crossing & overlapping. We delve into a cross-sectional site map of many-layered Troy of historical imagination — including its environs, the Troad; with its prospects, Troynovant. In relational-database terminology, our StrataLinks are alternate views of the geographical structure. Angled stratagems if you like, to coax ourselves to think about and enjoy other reflections and combinations of our refractory material.
  

Thinker's digressions. — With many thinkers the course of their thought as a whole is rigorous and unrelentingly bold, indeed from time to time cruel to itself, but in the details they are mild and pliant; they circle around a subject ten times with benevolent hesitation but in the end they resume their rigorous course. They are streams with many bends and turns and secluded hermitages; there are places along their route where a stream plays hide-and-seek with itself and makes for itself a brief idyll with islands, trees, grottos and waterfalls: and then it moves on again past cliffs, forcing itself through the hardest stone.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Dawn
Thoughts on the Presumptions of Morality, #530
translated by Brittain Smith

  
(We expect more strata will be discovered.)
  

  
[Verona. Juliet's balcony.]

Juliet (to Nurse):

Alack, alack, that heaven should practice stratagems
Upon so soft a subject as myself!

William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 3.5.209-210

  
[A vision of Ezekiel, with his prophesied inspiration:]

1. The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones. ...
3. And he said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" And I answered, "O Lord God, you know."
4. Then he said to me, "Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
5. Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. ..."

7. So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a sound, and behold, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
8, And I looked, and behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them. But there was no breath in them.
9. Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live."
10. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.

Ezekiel 37:1-10
Bible: English Standard Version  (ESV)