[…] But this is to overlook the semiotician's octopodean ambitions. Implicit in Saussure's dream of a unified field of communication lay the totalizing possibility (substantially realized by Barthes and others) of claiming the whole world ...

The same praise should not be refused to the North-countryman who talks of the clough of the tree, literally the valley, the cleft, where the branches part.

The Wanderlust has lured me to the seven lonely seas, / Has dumped me on the tailing-piles of dearth; / The Wanderlust has haled me from the morris chairs of ease, / Has hurled me to the ends of all the earth.

While parseing an xml document( sax parser ), trying to replace ' | ' with ' & ' , it finds the pipe, but won't replace with amper.