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It may be time to start prewriting our Sony Mobile obituaries, as the latest earnings report from Sony indicates the company’s already tiny smartphone business has shrunk by almost half.

Miss Palma is always going on and on about brainstorming and lists and “prewriting,” so I started a list of truly annoying things: • Journal assignments • Dull pencils • The pencil sharpener smell • Miss Palma’s perfume • Why doesn’t Renee Albert ever look at me?

In candidates’ war rooms across the country, as their bosses hone their onstage zingers, aides are working behind the scenes to perfect their social media strategy — from prewriting tweets with catchy hashtags to cutting ads ready to go up on Google search or Facebook.

Consider prewriting boilerplate paragraphs, common instructions, and responses to certain types of inquiries.

By these enigmatic symbols, a prewriting culture communicated its worldview from a vast and ungenerous land that it could never fully tame — any more than these people of the horse were ever ready to settle down.