The Surveyor assuages his anxiety about self-loss, that is, with the notion that there exists an inviolable margin of free selfhood, an unencumberable form of property in the self, immune from the effects of living in the customhouse of culture.

(Maryland, Delaware)

The airliner had to land with a nose-up attitude after the incident.

Miss Verena was a natural genius, and he hoped very much she [Miss Chancellor] wasn't going to take the nature out of her. She could study up as she went along; she had got the great thing that you couldn't learn, a kind of divine afflatus, as the ancients used to say, and she had better just begin on that.