[I]f you're honest enough you might end up in the drunk-tank 15 or 20 times and lose a few jobs and a wife or 2 or maybe slug somebody in the streets and sleep on a park bench now and then […].
A separative error can reveal [to] us that a certain manuscript was not copied from another manuscript. […] For example, the scribe of manuscript A missed a whole line of a text when he was copying. Now the text in manuscript A makes no sense (because a whole line is missing), but it would be impossible for the scribe of J to know what exactly is missing and to add it absolutely correctly. If J, then has kept this line which is clearly missing from A, we can argue that J is not a copy of A, but a copy of another manuscript, which had not missed that line […]
Among the explanations for why we in Western culture, and particularly contemporary American society, neotenize our animals as we do is our need to gain a sense of control over them.
Any [economic] downturn will eventually impact on rail freight, and indeed passenger traffic, so operators are watching this closely.
