He bit his under-lip as though he were somewhat unwilling, but arose.

But the area wasn't so bad - Lower Grope, further west, was the rough bit. The place of hooligan shennanigans and vandal scandals. Where louts shout and thugs mug. Dog rough...

particular one of those predicates (being-masculine, being- American, e.g.) exposes a relation between a real being and an empty totality, a nonthing, or nothing that renders this real being a whateverness.

But such an argument can only meaningfully be made with a nuancedly situated and historically informed sense of the stakes involved.