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...thesis) shares its titlewith the book. It includes such double-entendre,pun treasures as "Dogs are very direct aboutwanting to go out," Dogs admit when they'rejealous," and "You can train a dog." Some are goodfor a chuckle, particularly when they parody humanself-help tomes--("The Courage to Heel") orpsychobabble ("I'm feeling very conflicted aboutthis new dog you keep talking about bringing home.On one paw, I want a playmate. One the otherpaw...
...like all its predecessors, The Wine-Dark Sea sometimes tacks into some pretty choppy stretches of technicalities: "upper-tree, side-trees, heel-pieces, side-fishes, cheeks, front-fish and cant-pieces, all scarfed, coaked, bolted, hooped and woolded together." But such passages are there for atmospherics rather than information, and they sometimes seem to be delivered with an authorial wink. In one of the running jokes in the series, Maturin, far more comfortable on land than on sea, frequently doesn't understand what his shipmates are saying. Occasionally he feigns ignorance. When Aubrey uses the term "shaped the mast," Maturin...
...Achilles Heel...
Kong served, and the Crimson seemed to find the Tigers' Achilles heel...
...panelist F. Warren McFarlan '59, Walker professor of business administration at the Business School, called the tension between information access and the right to privacy "the Achilles heel" of modern technology...