| 1 | Semiotics 211 was limited to ten students. | |
| 2 | Of those ten, eight had taken Introduction to Semiotic Theory. | |
| 3 | There is a Darwinian semiotics, understanding the relationships among species in semiotic terms. | |
| 4 | Semiotics was the first thing that smacked of revolution. | |
| 5 | Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. |