The monastery where Ottavio is later sent becomes a metaphor of the motherless, femaleless family to which the boy now belongs.

A sphere may be osculatory to the surface in every direction at an umbilicus.

But instead of pressing the button that would have taped the play she pressed the button that activated the built-in microphone and recorded a hundred and twenty minutes of hers and Barnaby's home life, which aurally consisted of 'Want a cup of tea?' 'No thanks.'

an ethereal solution