The cases of Telemann, Mozart, and Mendelssohn, who, in their befrocked childhood, threw off sonatas and fugues to the amazement of those who best knew the depth and breadth of the faculty required for their production, are full of curious psychological interest […]

I will kill you if you do that is a commissive statement.

He says he has never had a **remission**. You thought he was being smug about 'lack of relapse(s)'. I think it's more like potato - potahto. No remission to me says unchanging and, hence, no relapse.

The salesman was taking up too much time with his nonsense, so I sent him away.