The Athenian Hyperbolus, who had been ostracised some years before by the coalition of Nikias and Alkibiadês, together with their respective partisans—ostracised (as Thucydidês tells us) not from any fear of his power and over-ascendent influence, but from his bad character and from his being a disgrace to the city—and thus ostracised by an abuse of the institution—was now resident at Samos.

Like Cage's Roaratorio, the mixing is so complex and the overlays overlay so elaborately and densely that a written transcription of the piece (an afterscript as with Kagel) would be too linear, and is not possible.

Shafak sketches these Armenians flatly and superficially, as uniformly and fiercely anti-Turk — and as overprotectively fretful about beautiful and bookish Armanoush.

I knew maybe four people who had 'greened out' in the cafeteria, said a recent graduate.