fine, here's the actual outline

We bow to the protestations of numerous colleagues and here post the uncensored, unadulterated outline of our paper, just as it appears in our own notes, minus the variables (for which you will wish to substitute your own).

We trust others will find this as useful as we have in the generation of creative thought.

Whedon meets Euripides, redux

Finally having some time free, after teaching, marking, submitting, seeing family, and collapsing,  my colleague and I are tackling our "Sacrificial Virgins" paper again.  For some reason this has been surprisingly difficult to finish; after 3 days' work we realised this was because we were trying to fit in every single thing either of us had ever thought about Buffy, Euripides, or Sacrificial Virgins.

On reflection, however,  it is quite possible that we will write again on tragedy, pop culture, virgins, or some combination thereof, so some of  these thoughts can surely go in the next paper.

We have therefore after long and careful thought produced an outline for the current paper, which I shall reproduce here since, as article outlines go, it is a model, a succinct template which I am sure will be useful to many others.  In the interests of serving the needs of our colleagues, as little as possible has been withheld to protect our results before publication:

Happy New Year, all.