was kindly called to account by the good doctor when her nine-months'-old baby tipped the scales at barely twelve pounds.

He landed dead stick.

Student A: Cher cher! Can I go to the loo? Teacher: Go lah go lah!.

Since [Edgar Allan] Poe is viewed by the critical tradition as simultaneously inevitable and dubious, we should strive to see him as neither in nor out of the central canon, but rather, to adopt one of [Jacques] Lacan's neologisms, as extimate with relation to it, simultaneously the intimate kernel and the foreign body, as Mladen Dolar glosses the term succinctly. The extimate is, like the social limit I have been outlining, a fold or fissure within a conceptual and discursive structure, an internal limit.