Why, he wondered, in addition to all the obstacles intrinsic and natural to writing, did his brain, the very organ that he thought would help him write fiction, actually supply a further obstacle, one that, besides being totally unexpected, was utterly pointless, wholly debilitating, and completely crazy?
When I fly home on Saturday, I still can't speak much more eloquently than a French four-year-old, but by then I realise this is totally besides the point.
And besides, Bubbie has totally won over Jenny with Yiddish lessons, Yiddish cooking lessons, Yiddish jokes and endless stories of life with the Warsaw Gang, a troupe so committed to its art that it staged performances underground during the ghetto years.
The plans fall under the Ministry of Justice's snappily-titled "Rehabilitation Revolution", which, besides being a totally on-point, zeitgeisty name, launched One3one Solutions, an enterprise charged with the task of enticing businesses to set up production within Britain's prisons.
I had a few people watching me and was a bit worried I was accidentally going to clonk someone in the head — but besides that, I was totally immersed.
What makes a movie totally gay besides actual gay characters?
Does it look like anything at all besides a benign and totally unsuggestive skyscraper?
Sunday's debate means we're ever-closer to Tuesday's big ol' primary in the boringest state besides Delaware, New Hampshire, which is totally exciting but also sad-making.
Since many governments endorsed social investment by rewarding givers with less taxes, many people ran and registered at charities without a sustainable model to keep their organizations alive beyond donations; this is totally unimpressive, besides their good intentions.
I was outraged and fought back, starting with a blog post: I became a poster child for the ACLU on this issue (which affected hundreds of other totally innocent people besides myself), and a regular interviewee on NPR, blasting the unconstitutional and ineffective No Fly List.
