They tried to zero the budget by the end of the quarter.

After Attridge has convincingly established the fact ofgenre bendingin John's text, he sensibly asks the question why it is there.

We have the feudal state in the gloomy and Gothic grandeur of Northumberland House; we pass along the Strand, where Jack Cade pursued his brief triumph—the prototype of every popular insurrection unbased on any great principle—sudden, cruel, and useless!

This according voice of national wisdom.