White settlers weren't the only Americans whose lives were reflected in quilt patterns, the author reminds us.

Australia, the author reminds us repeatedly, is a marginal country, a civilization set up along coasts.

So it was important for the author to remind herself to "Now suppose..., and this she certainly did.

It's one thing if the author is intentionally reminding the reader that this is language, not life; quite another if the translator does so inadvertently.

Yet "nothing was what it seemed here," the doting author reminds us about Venice.

At the same time, the author gently reminds readers that not even the perfect job leads to perfect happiness all the time.

"Of course the state of being flabbergasted was normal for Homer," the author reminds us.

The authors subtly remind us that these two wise old heads are both black.

The author reminds us that Rumania is among the most richly endowed of the Soviet-bloc countries, yet provides the least for its people.

George Washington, as the author reminds us, died in late 1799 after two straight days of being bled in response to a streplike infection.