Considering that he was speaking extemporaneously, he covered the subject pretty well.

In the phalanx,…were 64 syntagmatarchies; and it evidently appears that the number of cavalry…assigned to act with the phalanx, was 4096 men; now this number being divided by 64, will exactly furnish a troop consisting of a like number to each syntagmatarchy.

Her [Ann Coulter's] toxicity is more about salesmanship than citizenship, more high-decibel attention whoring than true ideology.

The lucidity of hindsight, on the other hand, tells him, when he reponders all of these events some time later, that it was while he was sitting alone in the Topples Auditorium that the details surrounding his brother's disappearance first floated irretrievably into unreality.