P-O-O-K-A. Pooka. From old Celtic mythology, a fairy spirit in animal form, always very large. The pooka appears here and there, now and then, to this one and that one. A benign but mischievous creature. Very fond of rumpots, crackpots, and how are you, Mr. Wilson?

[D]espite the commonplace (if sometimes implicit) presumption of haecceitism underlying the work of [Gottfried Wilhelm] Leibniz and his commentators, there is remarkably strong pressure in Leibniz's mature philosophy toward anti-haecceitism.

While Lincoln Kirstein noted that the unitards did show clearly the dancers' lines, he too found them distracting: Union-suit tights are hard to make look neat, but the line of undergarments shining through continually destroyed the line.

She’s a bit of a dragon.