“In Oslac's defense,” Steven said, “I must say that Girda was more than nagsome. She nigh begged to have her tongue slit to stop her incessant criticisms, just as Boris the Braggart did with his wife.”

To fail to narrativize one's own life, to fail to redescribe oneself, Rorty suggests, is to fail to be fully human.

Mary did not approve of the Eleanor gestalt. I been to Woonsocket S.D., Eleanor McGovern's hometown, she said, and nobody there? I mean nobody? dresses like that.

Dimensional analysis is a technique that can be used to clarify and explain relationships between physical quantities.