In England the vices in fashion are whoring & drinking, in Turkey, Sodomy & smoking, we prefer a girl and a bottle, they a pipe and pathic.

The face lift is a classic example of cosmetic surgery.

If Self’s languages define her identity, and have made her ‘very Canadian,’ her French does not correspond to Canadian French as she discovers in Montreal, her Québécois heritage absent from her pronunciation:[…]it is precisely Self’s ‘French French’ that undermines her in public in Quebec, as the dignity of her claims to being Québécoise is attacked.

Every time we came a research area, we had to pause while the scientists threw grey shrouds over prototypes that I wasn’t to see.