Adding fertilizer to a terrarium is a lot like adding salt to a recipe: Once you've added too much, you can't unadd it, and you've likely ruined the recipe!

Because whe had put off telling her mother that they intended to take it — a slight weariness at having to explain her flimsiest actions year in and year out had produced its own little pall of dishonesty (she found actual lying forced up an almost physical nausea inside her, so she now shied away from that and relied entirely on silence with its mixed bag of answers), they eased the vehicle from the gig-house with an apprehensive casualness.

Chapter 3 deals with the p-adic gamma function.

The president was elected even though he received only 40% of the popular vote.