Suggested by remarks in last night's link to posts tagged Swimmer —
"A professor is all-powerful, Gareth liked to tell his daughter,
he puts ‘a veritable frame around life,’ and ‘organizes the
unorganizable. Nimbly partitions it into modern and postmodern,
renaissance, baroque, primitivism, imperialism and so on. . . .'"
— From a review by Liesl Schillinger in the Aug. 13, 2006,
New York Times of a new novel by Marisha Pessl:
Special Topics in Calamity Physics.
"A veritable frame" —
"Nimbly partitions" —
See also partitioning in posts tagged Crimson Abyss.