I had lost him. He might have been speaking Ursprache, for all that I understood.

Right hemiabdominal mass, jaundice due to obstructive hepatoma

By the mid-twentieth century the avant-garde, the good, the bad, and the fatal in-between [in art] have all become mixed in one indigestible bouillabaisse, and [Dwight] Macdonald has assigned himself the position of pointing out which is which.

it's a flange of baboons