The first section examines a multimodal parodic performance that hyperexaggerates a quantitative bragging or boasting ritual, and then contrasts that with a normal voicing of more practical evaluation criteria.

It was strange to him that a father should feel no tenderness at parting with an only son.

It is not a retail showroom. It is only for the trade.

It’s a huge all-encompassing environmental force, determining the lives of everyone, open-endedly.