“I liked the ablative absolute, the way it could wrap up entire epochs in two words, then move on,” she writes.

Finding an ablative absolute, they are confident of finding some sort of proposition: and there it is, to their hand.

Zamenhof states that the "ablative absolute" does not exist in Esperanto, as its use would be against the spirit of the language.

An absolute construction, imitating the Latin ablative absolute.

You will recognise this as an ablative absolute phrase.