I didn't originally set out to do an abstract. Like I said, this in my first foray into a scholarship-style article, so I'm not 100% onto the proper form. I intended to write an introduction, explaining the relation between this post and my earlier post. If you think it would benefit the article, I could go back and add an abstract. (I haven't done that yet, so it's not surprising that my introduction doesn't look like an abstract.)

(Also, your original comment was very cryptic to me...at first I thought you were asking to see the abstracts of the papers I cited.)