"Women," he explained, with a snort.
He explained with a comparison.
This is a mystery I'm sure only Penn and Teller could explain with any kind of clarity.
The fascination is not with ice, he has explained, but with a kind of pure whiteness he saw as a young man in Venice, when sunlight washed over marble walls along the Riva degli Schiavoni, a color he felt it would be wrong to try to replicate in paint.
"When the instrument is properly set," Dad explains with the kind of cockeyed thinking rampant throughout the novel, "it provides an estimate of your life expectancy and starts to work backward to zero".
Franzen explains: One afternoon, with a kind of grim foreboding, I went to the bedroom and grabbed the puffin by its wings and stuck it underneath a bright lamp and turned it inside out, and there, sure enough, was the label: "HANDMADE IN CHINA".
But he has always been obsessed with history in a way he finds hard to explain, a kind of fascination with resilient traces left by transitory things.
The existence of two droplet groups can be explained with the presence of two kinds of surface defects that are etched in different ways, so that the droplets can differ in the composition, volume and geometry.
Focusing on various real issue that can not be easily solved only by correcting the superficial organizational structure in a complicated age, this course is explained with examples in terms of what kind of quality habits and good ideas are needed to progress transformation on this era.
Since then, he explained, a new kind of coated rubber tubing with brightly saturated color has been developed.
