If you can keep my "Lohengrin" going only by Truncating its healthy organism, and not by operating to the best of your power on the diseased organism of our truncated operatic body, then I shall be cordially glad if you are rewarded for your pains according to circumstances, but I must ask you not to be angry with me if I look upon such a success with indifference.
"Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1"
Francis Hueffer (translator)
It is better to wait, and to defer the realisation of our ideas until we can realise them fully, than to defraud the future by Truncating them, if truncate them we must, in order to secure a partial triumph for them in the immediate present.
"On Compromise"
John Morley
In reality, the tip is just an ordinary shoe shortened by Truncating the heels.
"Diseases of the Horse's Foot"
Harry Caulton Reeks