“He would say ect. instead of ect., and thus instead of ect., instead of ect. and thus and so forth!”

“Comparisons are odiousCervantes, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, ect...”

“Diazapam (that's valium), temazepam, lithium, ECT, HRT - how long must I stay on this stuff? Don't give me anymore!”

“The ECTs are moving the guns in small batches," Bat said. "We're making them take so many photos that one of them asked if she was being trained to shoot porno.”

“Wait untila year from nowwhere you say,“Holy fuck,I can’t believe I was going to kill myself before I etcetera’d…before I went skinny dipping in Tennessee,made my own IPA,tried out for a game show,rode a camel drunk,learned to waltz with clumsy old people,photographed electric jellyfish,built a sailboat from trash,taught someone how to read,ect. Ect. Etc.”The red washingdown the bathtubcan’t change the color of the seaat all.”

“We communicated with pithy, rather monosyllabic thoughts: viz. Run, Jump, Where? Left, Up, Duck, ect. (This latter was an observation I made on the edge of a lake. Nathaniel unfortunately took it as a command, which resulted in our temporary immersion.) We didn't ever quite say Ug, but it was a close-run thing.”