The move from purely descriptive, outward directive, writing toward writing centered on its wordness, its physicality, its haecceity (thisness) is, in its impulse, an investigation of human self-sameness, […]

If somefn were an inlinable constant function, then even switching the evaluation order like this […] wouldn't change the outcome, since the entire expression still resolves at compile time.

Laura looked at him coolly, levelly. 'Frank,' she said softly, 'the information simply isn't there. Therefore the control can't be there either. So don't try to con me. You don't know shit from Shinola!'

In short-sighted men […] the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom.