| 1 | Sometimes asking for what you want can really surprise you. | |
| 2 | He had a ridiculous array of moves to go along with his frame. | |
| 3 | He produced plenty of elegant phrases but little that was new, and quite a bit that was confusing. | |
| 4 | Encompassed in a luminous cloud, of which he was now merely the fiery heart, without material substance, he swung through unthinkable arcs of oscillation, like a vast pendulum. | |
| 5 | Whenever she turned cold and hard, I begged her to be good to me again, to forgive me and love me. |