A text that could not speak to the present was dead, and the exegete had a duty to revive it.

The senator forever working on getting us in to see Sam—the President—while we waited and waited and waited, until, one day, a crawful, I decided to go out there and see Sam myself at the Palace ...

Hannibal Lecter is one of many in the gallery of cinema villains and unrepentant opters for evil who remind us that the only place where they will be at home is Hell or the void.

The derivative of f(x)=x³ at x=2 is 12.