It becomes a grotto, hubbubbing with more noise than any class on a school visit could make, the air mobbed by breathless chatter about life and the transfer window.

In each case, we are reborn—a fact that explains [Henry David] Thoreau's preference here for the father tongue over the mother tongue, as [Stanley] Cavell explains: A son of man is born of woman; but rebirth, according to our Bible, is the business of the father. The rebirth of Walden will involve baptism in the waters of Walden Pond, and, by extension, in Walden, the book Thoreau endeavors to write in the father tongue.

With the idea that regulation of air supply would secure great economy of fuel, an instrument called a “dasymeter” has been invented to indicate the percentage of carbonic acid in the products of combustion; the weight of a vessel, through which gases are being continually drawn from the chimney of a boiler, is indicated on a scale which shows the percentage of carbonic acid compared with the weight of pure air.

I enjoyed many of the lagers during my week's stay and can personally attest to their highly sessionable nature.