Another good reason to use first-class mail is the fact that it will often be forwarded or, if need be, returned to the sender if the address is bad. (In the industry, this is called a “nixie.”) It is important to keep an eye on the nixie rate if you are using first-class mail.

This version of length arises naturally from the recursive definition of a list: “a list is either the empty list or an element consed onto another list.”

Ultimately, what I can recommend is to go beyond looking for works recommended by a self-styled authority such as myself; immersing oneself in the unorganized, uncleaned, unprepackaged multitude of writings about

And in another tale, told at Kemnitz of the Nicker, as he is there called, when he asks the midwife how much he owes her, she answers that she will take no more from him than from other people.