And in the midst of the mirror-like stillness through which it was impossible to see the great machineries grinding, my mother, the brand-new Amina Sinai, who also looked still and unchanging although great things were happening beneath her skin, woke up one morning with a head buzzing with insomnia and a tongue thickly coated with unslept sleep and found herself saying aloud, without meaning to at all, "What's the sun doing here, Allah? It's come up in the wrong place.'

Recent experience indicates that for infinite-dimensional Hopf algebras, the “right” definition of Galois is to require that 𝛽 be bijective.

How about if we recruit a few guys from the crew, I’ll go on stage and make an announcement about how we’re gonna get schlonged by lettin’ everybody in ahead of time, and these guys can pass a basket around the audience for contributions.

When you write about using a waterproof laser pointer while scuba diving, you probably aren't going to write about a L.A.S.E.R. pointer for S.C.U.B.A. diving, and you certainly aren't going to write about a light-amplification-by-stimulated-emission-of-radiation pointer for self-contained-underwater-breathing-apparatus diving, because the words laser and scuba are anacronyms.