She brought to the stage the barefoot, slack-jawed frontiersmen found on postcards in every convenience store and tourist trap in the Ozarks.

, New York, 2001, p.213: Foolish, drunken, or hairbrain women most part bring forth children like unto themslves, morosus et languidos, and so likewise he that lies with a menstruous woman.

Many readers too, have made much of the signifying force of the connection between Sterne and the starling.

The papers were carelessly strewn on the table.