I thought: how long can I contain this anxiety before it completely overwhelms me?" The vast majority of sufferers are in the same camp as Lidbetter – able to function, but in relatively painful fashion, their lives ruled by avoidance, subterfuge, ritual (for instance locking and unlocking the door several times) and self-medication (they may drink, or self harm).
To me, the big epiphany I had around the company's kits, is that whenever I try them out, I'm finding myself truly sad that they weren't around when I was a kid: I can't even imagine how I would have contained my excitement twenty years ago.
I've written before about the song Chelsea Hotel #2, of how it contains my favourite single word in all of rock'n'roll – the plain, half-muttered "that" of its final line.
Now let's see how it contains Gettier scenarios.
Like any real star, his greatest role was always himself; no matter how extreme or how contained his performance, he was always bigger than any role he took.
"I really don't know how I'm going to contain my tabbed browser selection (or my job for that matter) when we get into the afternoon session and there is simultaneously: The Open OBO, The Ashes OBO and The Tour OBO," writes Kevin Casemore, suffering from a very modern malaise.
I can tell you about the love, and the joy, and the beauty, but even those words fail to contain how I feel about my children.
I could also, with a fair amount of accuracy, tell you how many calories each of those meals contained, and how I felt while eating them.
Of course, Lee has done this before; his previous book How I Escaped My Certain Fate contained transcripts of his three preceding shows … but that book traded as autobiography.
Teachers monitored how many samples contained iodine and how many did not.
