Хуже того, он позволяет себе использовать метафоры, употребляя реалии, в отношении которых совершенно некомпетентен: "... этот жаргон вроде кори. Детская болезнь, не оставляющая в организме опасных следов."

Suppression of the immune system by measles lasts about two years and has been epidemiologically implicated in up to 90% of childhood deaths in third world countries, and historically may have caused rather more deaths in the United States, the UK and Denmark than were directly caused by measles.