Summary and Analysis by Chapter

Chapter 14: Salvaging

I tell, therefore you are a rephrasing of Rene Descartes' I think, therefore I am."

The bell is tolling an allusion to John Donne's Meditation XVII, which includes the phrase therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

Christmas crèche a manger scene displaying the Holy Family.

Bestow an ironic usage of a biblical synonym for give.

Particicution execution by dismemberment.

Deuteronomy 22:23-29 the exacting Mosaic law governing punishment for rape of a virgin.

Word perfect the trademark of a popular computer word processing program.


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