He secured a coffee potful of trout fry in the Big Arroyo country and clambered over some of the roughest land in the Sierra ranges.

you wish me to submit to be stethoscoped; if so, you shall be gratified, although the prospect of undergoing that, or any other operation at Mr. Pigwidgeon's hands, is not the most agreeable

[Gilles] Deleuze and [Félix] Guattari often refer to the Individuals composed from elements as haecceities. Haecceities can be characterized by linguistic phrases involving one or more of the following: an indefinite article, a proper name, or an infinitive verb, for example, the heat of the day (What heat!) as opposed to an exact temperature; a long day (What a long day!) as opposed to the day as a set number of hours; […] Depending on the relations of speed and slowness between the unformed elements that make them up, these haecceities have specific affects, that is, capacities to affect or be affected by other haecceities.

weaken a bond