 my only wife. How is it that you are a monkey, you are a centipede, you are a gem, you are a jewel, you are a combination of all the aforesaid and one? If I but had you this very moment, I would demonstrate all of the foregoing with a real vigor and then unexcelled. How about it? I don't know when centipede became a term of endearment, but Remus called her centipede, and apparently, I don't know.