Unintellectual he may be, but Gately's reactions to the maudlin embarrassingness and awfulness of AA's precepts sound very much like Wallace's in “An Ex-Resident's Story,” and for this reader they provide the realest and most beautiful and exact account of the author's own experiences.

The lissom birch thrives ungarnered in the thicket, where grace and gentleness supply the whilom vigor of its sway.

[The Ancient Egyptian calendar had] 12 months each 30 days long followed by five epagomenal days.

This book develops Grothendieck's scheme theory as a method for studying algebraic geometry. […] In the preface of EGA [ Éléments de géométrie algébrique ], Grothendieck even claimed that a knowledge of classical algebraic geometry may hinder the reader from studying scheme theory.