Hellish as it is for an employee to feel Galotti's wrath, being in his good book is no picnic, either.

So I always knew what Pierce meant, in a kidding-on-the-square kind of way.

If contingency defines a realist ideal, then oversignification threatens that ideal. Yet in a context where meaning, whether national, cultural, or so on, is not a given, but the object of desire, oversignification offers a certain attraction.

It stands on the conflux of two rivers—the Chelmer, whence the town is called, and the Cann.