The language here has an incantatory flavor. The dialogue ends on a note of cheery abundance that would have made John Brinsley wince. Brinsley's and Carolino's books are startlingly alike. And Carolino, too, seems infected with a sense of linguistic public service. Richard Ames Hart sees language as a system of insults.
People use language to tear one another apart, to destroy and to dominate.
Hart, then, offers a kind of verbal Aikido designed to prevent other people from turning you into dialogic child. His system taxonomizes verbal attacks with the rigor and specifity of medieval manuals of rhetoric. The grand scheme that ties these elements together is the notion of the sesshin byooin , or Japanese mental hospital, in which the attackers are the patients and we, their supposed victims, become the doctors. Taken as a whole, Hart's vast idiosincracy produces nothing less than a database of language derangment. It's time for a lesson.