Robin knows a lot reasons why dogs are good pets, and Leslie, cats.
a. He spoke in the kind of tone a lawyer might use to address a jury, or a serious professor of history his students. (Tom McCarthy, Remainder, Vintage: New York, 2005, p.236.)
b. If this narrative were a quotidian account of the history of Russia, this chapter would be a proletarian’s account of the Great October Soviet Socialist Revolution of 1917, if a history of France, the beheading of Marie Antoinette, if a chronicle of America, the assassination of Abra- ham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth. (Marisha Pessl, Special topics in calamity physics, Vintage: New York, 2006, p. 311.)
c. No, this was the torturous, clammy kind, when one’s pillow slowly takes on the properties of a block of wood and one’s sheets, the air of the Everglades. (op.cit., p. 347.)
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