the lectal area

Blow the dust off that book and open it up.

… That's none such an entirely bad little man, yon little man with the red head, said Alan. He has some spunks of decency.

Following a cursory audition requiring my singing an octave while Miss Dubois was playing it on the piano—a procedure stacked in my misfavor since I had recently learned to play the piano—I was chosen for the role of Captain, a role, that unfortunately, as I was soon to learn, requires more than an octave.