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;; Plumber Bob was not from Seattle, my grey city, for rainy Seattle is a
;; city of interiors, a city of the self-diminished.  When I moved here one
;; sunny June I was delighted to find that ducks and geese were common in
;; the streets.  But I hoped to find a loon or two, and all I found were
;; ducks and geese.  I wondered about this; I wondered why there were no
;; loons in Seattle; but my confusion resulted from my ignorance of the
;; psychology of rain, which is to say my ignorance of diminished modes.
;; What I needed, and lacked, was a way to discover they were there.

;;;###autoload
(defun diminished-modes ()
  "Echo all active diminished or minor modes as if they were minor.

;; A human mind is a Black Forest of diminished modes.  Some are dangerous;
;; most of the mind of an intimate is a secret stranger, and these diminished
;; modes are rendered more unpredictable by their long isolation from the
;; corrective influence of interaction with reality.  The student of history
;; learns that this description applies to whole societies as well.  In some
;; ways the self-diminished are better able to discern the night worker.
;; They are rendered safer by their heightened awareness of others'
;; diminished modes, and more congenial by the spare blandness of their own
;; mode lines.  To some people rain is truly depressing, but others it just
;; makes pensive, and, forcing them indoors where they may not have the
;; luxury of solitude, teaches them to self-diminish.  That was what I had
;; not understood when I was searching for loons among the ducks and geese.
;; Loons come to Seattle all the time, but the ones that like it learn to be
;; silent, learn to self-diminish, and take on the colors of ducks and geese.
;; Now, here a dozen years, I can recognize them everywhere, standing quietly
;; in line with the ducks and geese at the espresso counter, gazing placidly
;; out on the world through loon-red eyes, thinking secret thoughts.

I use diminish, extensively:

(use-package diminish)
(provide 'cce/diminish)