I liked After Dark, and then the whole series with the very endearing and Dangerfieldesque Sgt. McCloskey, who had me institches with “The Basket Case,” “The Hopeless Case,” “The Brief Case,” “The Flute Case” (!) “The Case of Hiccoughs”. . . Boy, did that bring a few things to mind.

Nathaniel Hawthorne is, for one, reported to have called him a dealer in slipslop on many subjects.

the laxness of the tympanum, when it has lost its brace or tension

In spite of its preservation of intervocalic surd stops and of s, Wkh. follows the other Pamir languages in the voicening of the groups ft and xt.