Some last thoughts in l'esprit de l'escalier—afterthoughts descending the stairwell as one remembers things unsaid.

Two distinct vein systems are to be noted as a result of the asbestosization of the serpentine.

My master was then squeezed between two groups of men armed with trudgeons and sticks, spears and lances, rakes and sickles.

Ali is irreverent, lazy and raspingly sardonic, and his obvious fictional predecessor is Joseph Heller ’s Yossarian.