| Some might say they are the two great bugbears of the nation, but I have written this book to celebrate their unquenched energy and mutual intrication. |
| Each indicates the intrication of serpentine lines with De Quincey's diverse interests in aesthetics, natural science, philosophy, and theology. |
| Davidson foregrounds the poetic practice's history, its intrication with discourses of nationalism, expansion, and colonialism. |
