[…] we are concerned with those relations of antecedence or sequence which it is impossible to think of as other than we know them.

Another Autumn, for instance, is a series of one-line sketches — a feathering of the ink whereby characters lose definition is followed by overlapping windowscreens, one pattern interfering with another, which is in turn followed by sideways, all the politeness, all that irony, trying for a draw (an echo of a line from A Pillow-Book, a much earlier O'Brien poem).

On each shift is a melting-shop yardsman, working under the traffic department, who is responsible for the fulfilment of the requisition.

Though the majority wanted to expand the dormitory, the maior et sanior pars decided on increasing the library's collection.