"I visited every one except those in North Wales and Anglesey," Glendinning explains from Edinburgh.
But of the revenants, he explains: "From the Jews, I wanted to know everything.
"Giorgio's more electro, Nile is more funk than me," Cerrone explains from Paris.
Partly, she explains, from the adopted city where her career took off.
It comes, Mr. DesRosiers explains, from the letter M, the first initial of his and his mother's first names.
In fact, he celebrates it, touting, for instance, his Mercedes-Benz — a gift, he explains, from a prosperous friend.
"I'm looking for someone who looks just like me, my twin," he explains from the back seat.
"Being an artist is my way of making a difference to this screwed-up society," the artist explains from his studio in Chelsea, New York.
"Endurance is really more a way of living than just a sport," she explains from Kathmandu, a city she has come to know well.
As Mr Pinker explains from his psychologist's chair, this is because such stories are easier to understand than all those metaconcepts and zombie nouns.
It takes its name, the catalog explains, "from a technological term that describes the meeting or separation line between parts of an object".
