Just for a moment. We had a glimpse of a Swann tremendously agitated. In a state of nerves. You see, Odette had left. You mean to say that she has gone the 'whole hog' with him; that she has 'burned her boats'? inquired the Doctor cautiously, testing the meaning of his phrases.

The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground.

Instead, replay turns sports fans into sports rulebook lawyers, Zaprudering clips frame-by-frame to determine if something took 2.4 or 2.5 seconds, and getting indignant that the clock operator didn’t immediately notice and react to Cousins tipping the ball, even though the announcers and most fans didn’t notice until watching a replay.

Andy Warhol was lunching poolside, amid the palm trees and exotic bird-of-paradise flowers.