The Coryphées now arrive, as well as the Corps de Ballet; the former holding a higher rank and receiving a higher salary than the latter. They are pretty trim-built girls, with sallow faces and large eyes—the pallor that overspreads their features resulting from cosmetics and late hours. They work very hard, and get very little sleep; but they appear to be very merry amongst themselves for all that.

It is that among other distinctions possible among symbols, an indispensable one is that between indicative and quiddative symbols.

Has some sickly eastern waste Sent us a wind to parch us at a blast?

retrievably stored nuclear waste