[…] when he should come to pay his Reckoning he puts his hands into his Pockets, and keeps a grabling and a fumbling, and shaking, at last tells you he has left his Money at home; when all the company knew at first, he had no Money there, for every man can quickly find his own Money.

I gave her a tranq, he said with anguish. She asked for one and I found this bottle in the medicine cabinet and gave it to her.

This irreducible gap between the being of the object and the aura of meaning which renders it subjectively significant as an object-value renders desire necessarily misapprehensible.

On Feb. 11, McLeod officials marched into the FCC [Federal Communications Commission] to relate this story, just as Netscape rat-finked on Microsoft to the Department of Justice. FCC officials demanded that Qwest tell them what the heck was going on.