“Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go.”
“I've always had trouble with the subjunctive. I wish that were not the case.”
“It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.”
“Gosh, darn it!”
“Also, SKULLS. Gosh you love SKULLS. There is a good SKULL at the heart of any mystery, haunting its EVERY PAGE. That is what you always say. Or at least, it is what you always HOPE.”
“I'm going over to see a boy who is having a nervous breakdown, a boy whose connection to the sense of sight itself is tenuous, and gosh dang it, I am going to wear a dress for him.”