| For Giovanni Gentile, propounder of a philosophy of actualism in Italy, the pure activity of self-consciousness is the sole reality. |
| He knows firsthand how cornering a Gentile for his flesh, be it a pound or, in the case of the footballer, a centigram, can backfire. |
| Throughout the novel, Rubinstein slides between Yiddish-inflected and Gentile slang depending on his level of self-confidence. |
| According to the police, he had been secretly baptized by a Gentile servant girl years before. |
| The book's cover reproduces a 1789 print of the famous fight between the Anglo-Jewish Daniel Mendoza and the Gentile Humphrey. |
| So Peter was the first to preach a message unto Gentile believers. |
