Of course she herself has never had that experience, although she knows precisely how her brain would respond if she did.

He never said to himself: "What if I were to go to such a place?

Let me know should he come here.

But something awful did happen to her; it was the kind of story that she herself would surely have enjoyed telling, if it hadn' t nailed her down forever.

If Adam came on earth again the only thing he will recognize will be the old joke.