In the pause before all this happens, you know something about the shape of the life you've chosen to live between the silence of almost infinite possibility and that explosion of things as they are--those vast unanswerable intrusions of love and disaster, or just the casual scatter of your child's winter clothes on the hall floor.
Since national styles of organ building vary widely and it is necessary to know something about them before the music of each nation can be performed intelligently, the more important styles must next be considered briefly.
The company and technology have been around for a while, but they're actually approaching the market at this point and you might want to know something about it before you start seeing the name pop up all over.
Ultimately, Indians cannot stop the widespread adoption of colour fights, but those who insist on wiling away summer afternoons by throwing paint at each other should at least know something about Holi before they do.
And in the rare instance of his withholding judgment on an issue, he said he preferred to know something about the issue before opining, although, he added, tongue in cheek, that actual knowledge was not necessarily a requirement.
A writer has to know something about a subject before offering a commentary: either from her own experience and knowledge, or from the acquisition of some expertise by specific research.
Certain people "think they have to dress up," he wrote, "They think they have to know something about the music before they go.
A girl or woman who needs to know something about the man before sleeping with him does not stand a chance.
Because in some cases, particularly in medicine, we know something about our parameters even before we've seen some data.
