She brought to the stage the barefoot, slack-jawed frontiersmen found on postcards in every convenience store and tourist trap in the Ozarks.

The papers were carelessly strewn on the table.

Many readers too, have made much of the signifying force of the connection between Sterne and the starling.

, New York, 2001, p.213: Foolish, drunken, or hairbrain women most part bring forth children like unto themslves, morosus et languidos, and so likewise he that lies with a menstruous woman.