'you better try being stupid, insteada smart'

In 'I Will Survive', perhaps in other disco, the string section actually makes a musical comment on the main song during the break. If the break featured one of the instruments from the band, it would seem like it was still in the vernacular. With strings instead, it wins more inexpensive poignancy.

I don't know if I've ever paid attention to 'God Save the Queen' all the way through: I have only just now heard the part that elevates it, 'there's no future in England's dreaming'.

'lower middle class still carryin bus passes'

500 - Tom Ewing's new writing project.

'The child's taunt, "My old cat will probably be dancing with" - if it really is a taunt and not the involuntarily friendly image of child, cat, and mouse dancing, the two animals on their hind legs - once appropriated by the poem, no longer has the last word.'

'The whole thing comes to depend thus on the quality of bewilderment characteristic of one's creature'

'This is the only Instance, it is believed, when he condescended to take Notice of any Thing that had been written against him; and here his chief Intention seems to have been to make Sport.'

'Our union can be perfected.'