She saw him, even as she had last gazed upon him, pale, cold, and awful; but still he was there. The coffin was to her like a shrine; all that she held most dear and most precious was within its dark and silent sanctuary.

The acts of monitoring, hypothesizing, and verifying are internal work which require a person's metaknowledge or knowledge concerning what kind of knowledge is needed and how that knowledge is appropriately used in the situation.

Sometimes I think that disco and the red hot chili peppers ruined funk music by 1) forcing a great, raw & organic funky music into an electronic context, and 2) making every jock-rock idiot bass player think that funk is about athletizing music and slapping and popping a whole lot.

Theodor Adorno argued that what a given poem seems to say in a literal sense is often contradicted by its formal disjointures, by what he called a poem's parataxis, and that its truth content must be seen as illusory in a special sense.