“The one nice thing about being the most overprogrammed middle-school kid in America was that doing nothing felt like a special treat,” Winerip writes.

what might else be wrought / Fusil or grav'n in metal

in tract of speech

We explain to somebody what is a regular quadrilateral constructed within the circle; then a regular triangle and a regular bi-angle. Now we ask him to draw a regular monogon by analogy, and we probably think that he cannot do this. But what if he draws a point on the circle and says that it is a regular monogon?