That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.

Surgery in an opera? How wonderfully decadent! And just as I was beginning to lose interest!

Mechanization of any process is achieved by fragmentation, beginning with the mechanization of writing by movable types, which has been called the “mono-fracture of manufacture.”

Indeed, whether the mainstream idealizes supermonogamy and practices serial monogamy, there is a parallel system of pretend monogamy based on secret affairs outside the official monogamous union that are occurring concurrently.