Every finite flat group scheme of order p over S is of the form Ga,b for some triple (L,a,b), and Gᴸ(a,b) is isomorphic to G(a_1,b_1) if and only if there exists an isomorphism from L to L_1 carrying a to a_1 and b to b_1.

Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

As a maker of such writing, he descends from a long line traceable from Whitman and Melville to the modernists and Mackey’s idol, Baraka, to the metafictionists John Barth and William Gass.

“Late come, late served, Mabel,” said her uncle, between mouthfuls of broiled salmon; […] “late come, late served; it is a good rule, and keeps laggards up to their work.” ¶ “I am no laggard, Uncle; for I have been stirring nearly an hour, and exploring our island.”