[…] 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.

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.

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.