We dance in heys around the hall, / Weightless as thistleball

the intake of air

There was a serpent in the gryphon's eye, he realized slowly, a snake and a hawk that danced and circled one another. The formel's voice lilted, drifting in and out of his thoughts.

We cited an instance: a certain profound student, eminent, dynamic and successful lawyer, who had the largest Napoleonic library in the South and was most accomplished in (sic) Napoleonology, or bibliography, could not secure a chair in a public school or college to teach Napoleonic history because he never went through a public school, nor a college, and had no diploma showing a regimented or categoried or set-down number of ‘credits’.