...and for a moment he could not identify the lady in the Empire dress, nor imagine why her presence created such excitement among the initiated.

By the time I had unpacked my sea bag, made my rack, and finished a good long hot shower, it was late in the evening. I decided to make it a day and hit the rack.

the explicit antitheology of Derridean thought

Nabby Adams crumpled and crashed off his chair. The house rumbled seismically at the heavy fall.