After a while, after a thousand times around the Earth, you get to know the world pretty well.
After a while, after the stutters, the false starts, the words warped or locked in your throat, after failure, you slammed the book shut.
"After a while, after we get through these important and necessary questions, there is a certain banter back and forth, and that makes it enjoyable".
After a while, after a glass or two of sake, for example, it becomes a refrain, just part of the fun.
Normally, a player would be under immense pressure when serving to stay in the tournament but there were no nerves because, after a while – after the first two or three hours, I mean – there was no expectation that anything unusual might happen.
After a while – after the subsidiary conversation in which I asked her to "elucidate" when she claimed there was something wrong with me – we resumed cutting and peeling in silence and I thought back to the night a couple of weeks earlier, at Burning Man, when Zoe thought she was going to die.
And after a while, after a week of this, I'd find that every time I had a spare moment and every time I came home, I was in front of the set playing with these mutant turtles".
It's just like any other thing...So I mean an extra couple minutes...you really don't notice it after a while after you get used to doing it".
