A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder.

The Emperor, who was by then a focus of unresolvable perplexities, stood providing a strongly contrary appearance.

For example, when a homosexual goes cruising, he runs the risk of being arrested, blackmailed or beaten up. Therefore, [Bergler concludes] homosexuals want to be hurt, humiliated, defeated and destroyed; they are all psychic masochists.

He batted the ball away with a satisfying thwack.