The problem that Benjamin identifies with this impulse, however, is the opportunity to overauthor the world; in the same essay Benjamin castigates the practice of photography as artistic production, stating that this art form merely 'succeed[s] in transforming even abject poverty—by apprehending it in a fashionably perfected manner—into an object of enjoyment.'

Miss Compton, in 'Other People's Worries,' asks rhetorically whether a young rip was not in the Blank divorce case.

Trasyanka and Surzhyk are interlanguages: a Belarusian–Russian and a Ukrainian-Russian mixed language.

Casca. He fell down in the market-place, and foamed at mouth, and was speechless. Brutus. 'T is very like: he hath the falling sickness.