“My dear, I never saw him.” “And I never saw him !” returned Ada. Well, to be sure!

Many readers find the first book of A Tale of Two Cities to be confusing.

But that sweet Cordiall, which can restore A loue-sick hart, she did to him enuy[…].

Being a hard-core noromo (parlance for no romancer, someone who believes the show's UST, or unresolved sexual tension, is the key to its vitality), I have also flamed shippers (relationshippers, those who want Mulder and Scully to get it on in the film) with now embarrassing vituperations, such as, Why don't you just go get the lame job you're destined for at the state budget office?