What he hadn't mentioned, and what I was to learn suddenly when I decided to let some fresh air into the room to disperse the lingering odor, was that the A.C. was not bolted to anything.
And once you notice a mountain in this city, you begin to see mountains everywhere, much the same way that a new word, freshly learned, suddenly seems the favorite of every editorial writer.
In this one, far from a naif who learns suddenly she will birth humanity's savior, she's told exactly what's supposed to happen from an early age and wrestles with how much she wants to participate in these fatalistic events.
But, despite what tech-evangelists would have us believe it will not be enough to put mobile devices into children's hands and expect the education system to improve or their learning to suddenly take off.
An anchor will fail and fail, we learned, then suddenly take hold with perfect sovereignty.
This little behavioural quirk, I am staggered to learn, has suddenly put me in a new demographic vanguard.
Yet as we have learned so suddenly and so tragically, there can be no peace in a world of sudden terror.
I, too, learned, rather suddenly, that I carry one copy of the risk gene and thus have a nominal Alzheimer's risk of around thirteen per cent.
But Mr. Phillips is an accountant by profession, and accounting for himself, the reader soon learns, has suddenly become his full-time job.
It seemed wrong to sell a piece that felt like a member of the family, only to have it end up in a storeroom until it was packed off to some decorator's client in, say, South Korea, where Nakashima, I had learned, was suddenly hot.
