Comment by vunderba

From the article:

> Contrapuntal to the list of things we must buy on each visit, there is perhaps a more controversial list.

That's... a very strange application of the word. I’ve only ever seen it used in the context of baroque music, interchangeable with the idea of counterpoint referring to independent melodic lines in a piece, such as you would see in Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier. Using it here feels forced and out of place.