Its subjunctive history. You know the subjunctive The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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Briefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse factual and to the point. Reading is untidy discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject reading opens it up.
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