(The weird specificity of that repeated phrase, "good and better," seems worth pointing out, if only because it would have been hard to make up).
It is not the staggering good luck that Michel has with strangers on a train or the Kama-Sutran choreography in the steam room, it's more, much more, mundane: I am staying in the same hotel as the characters in the novel and I have to point out (if only to myself) with passion-extinguishing pedantry that there are no mixed-sex Turkish baths here.
As he likes to point out, if you used only power generated by nuclear energy throughout your life, the waste could fit into a can of Coca-Cola.
Cohen pointed out if we're only considering test scores, "The same argument"—albeit in the inverse—"could be made for Ritalin.
But, as Kevin Martin, the former head of the F.C.C., was fond of pointing out, if you're watching only sixteen channels why should you pay for eighty-five?
As this economist points out, embargoes only work if one completely blockades the country concerned, which is not an option.
Although, as Knight points out: "It only works if you've got an administration system that is capable of issuing the keys when they need to be issued, and retrieving the keys when they need to be retrieved".
If, as The Economist points out, "The only reliable way to produce more food is to use better technology," then unprecedented opportunities for useful agricultural research and extension programs should be plentiful.
Either that or point out (if only to him) that he was one half of the explosive Wright-Bright partnership that was taking Division One by storm.
Other ascetics have had "shirts anyway," Salter points out, "even if they were only made of hair".
