In the little town of Apogee, he befriends the malapropistic auto mechanic Stiff Major and his holistic hippie wife, Ursula, as well as a revolution-happy country-punk band called the Radniks (say it out loud), and puts his knowledge to work in the real world for the first time.

Aldersgate is the expression Methodists use to refer to the powerful spiritual experience in which, in Wesley's own words, his heart was strangely warmed.

The New York Barbadian community is a hybrid, hardened weed flowering on New Yorkian ground.

In this point charge him home, that he affects / Tyrannical power: if he evade us there, / Enforce him with his envy to the people, / And that the spoil got on the Antiates / Was ne’er distributed.