31.   I made a careful note of this exchange in the slim volume in which I stashed anything that sounded like wisdom.

32.   I remember my tongue shedding its skin like a snake, my voice in the classroom sounding just like the rest.

33.   If it had a name, or a code word, well that sounds like civil servants playing games.

34.   If that sounds like a cutting-edge plateful, it is.

35.   In the echoing stillness of the hall at Colcutt Manor it sounded like the four-minute warning.

36.   In the silence the noise sounded like a small earthquake but he paid no attention to it.

37.   It all sounds like economic theories, you know.

38.   It also sounds like fun to sign up for an Internet mailing list.

39.   It also sounds like the kind of moral purpose with which Palmerston infused his gunboat diplomacy.