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Phil’s so smart, there’s no doubt he knows the definition of chiasmus.

You should imagine yourself walking through the verse, he said, stopping at the chiasmus, the middle line: He knows that which is in front of them and that which is behind them.

And, in an embrace of the structure and practice of thought called chiasmus, of which Pascal in his “Pensées” was master, the terms may be reversed.

Beneath this dystopian chiasmus, is brutal and often hilarious satire and nightmare visions of death on the 405.

This is the kind of thing that would get a tick from a kind schoolteacher for its use of chiasmus, but does risk falling prey to what psychologists term “left-hand truncation”.