Now I'm not just here to rip on smokers but I do want to talk about your cigarette butts and what happens when you throw them on the ground, like there isn't any consequence, because I see them literally everywhere.
He favoured me with a quizzical smile. " Hump, I have studied some grammar in my time, and I think your tenses are tangled. 'Was mine, ' you should have said, not 'is mine'."
He writhed under the jokes, practical and otherwise, which were perpetually made at his expense, and yet never ceased, it seemed wilfully, to expose himself to them.
Nussbaum disproves the dig on modern academics-that they live above the political fray, in ivory towers-perhaps because she takes her cues from the OGs of philosophy.