Opposed to the originalist is the type of man in whom banality exists as a supposed virtue; from whom it would not only seem an impropriety to act, dress, and think differently from other people, but in whom it would be deemed a virtue not even to desire to do so.

In terms of boundary play, though, most interesting of all to me were the children I saw building sandcastles, also depicted on the diagram. I witnessed two distinct types of sandcastlers. […] The second type of sandcastler, though, was a little more daring. This person built her or his castle right on the edge of the lapping water.

Over time, his views moved far away from mine.

[…] he would no more tell a grunt in uniform what he was really thinking than he'd drop his pants and wag the weasel at a formal diplomatic function. Some things were simply not done by professionals. Full stop. Case closed.