As he drives away, alone, he "thinks of things he has not thought of before, about women's lives.
When he thinks of "things for which he could not find the words but that he understood, down in his bones he understood," things that "knit stone and water together," the phrase "like an oyster" is not far behind.
She thinks of things she has forgotten in the past months, then lists the things she has learned: how to make grape jelly, the etymology of "embarrassment," the corkscrew willow, new words, the westward expansion of the United States, about Edward Kennedy, the opening bars of a symphony, and how Richard Henry Dana's book, "Two Years Before the Mast" came to be written.
She thinks of things she has forgotten in the past months, then lists the things she has learned: how to make grape jelly, the etymology of "embarrassment," the corkscrew willow, new words, the westward expansion of the United States, about Edward Kennedy, the opening bars of a symphony, and how Richard Henry Dana's book, "Two Years Before the Mast" came to be written..
Thus if, as Berkeley supposes Locke does, one thinks of things as consisting of collections of ideas, he asks how could one take a thing to be something other than ideas and nevertheless to exist?
When it comes to scientific debate, Tatar doesn't pull his punches, Finch adds: "Marc is fearless--and completely appreciated for it--in telling you what he thinks of things instead of pussyfooting around".
