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Who will assume [Gertrude Stein’s] mantle? Who will seek to kill the twentieth century dead?

Olmstead Trent III, The History of Objects.

“Edith, please tell me, what is the idea behind that hair-do? I’m baffled. Can you help a guy?”

Wilson Phelps, Reaching Out.

“Could it be, Roberta, that he is far more complex than we could ever hope to know?”

Wilson Phelps, Reaching Out.

A proposition is self-evident, we will say. But is it self-evident that it is so?

Lawrence Rittle, The Fundamentals of Confusion.