| The notes, in numbered sections that divide the volume, are not aphorisms but apercus, usually consisting of only a word and a dependent clause, not whole sentences. |
| At times, O'Malley's irreverent New York Irish humor resembles Oscar Wilde's wit with its aphoristic apercus. |
| No one knows better than she the people involved, and this time those illuminating apercus would have the impact of a klieg light. |
