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@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ Now we can write:
         (p get-first)   ; will evaluate to 10
         (p get-second)  ; will evaluate to 20
 
-If you're bothered by having the pair to the left and the function that operates on it come second, think about why it's being done this way: the pair is a package that takes a function for operating on its elements as an argument, and returns the result of operating on its elemens with that function. In other words, the pair is also a function.
+If you're bothered by having the pair to the left and the function that operates on it come second, think about why it's being done this way: the pair is a package that takes a function for operating on its elements as an argument, and returns the result of operating on its elemens with that function. In other words, the pair is also a function.  (Of course, in the untyped lambda calculus, absolutely *everything* is a function: functors, arguments, abstracts, redexes, values---everything.)
 
 If you like, you can disguise what's going on like this:
 
@@ -145,4 +145,4 @@ You can help yourself to the following definition:
 
     (define add (lambda (x) (lambda (y) (+ x y))))
 
-* [Only attempt this if you're feeling frisky, it's super hard unless you have lots of experience programming] Write a function that reverses the order of the elements in a list.
+* Write a function that reverses the order of the elements in a list. [Only attempt this problem if you're feeling frisky, it's super hard unless you have lots of experience programming.]