1. Ginczanka was seen as abstemious, of studiedly modest demeanour, and virtuous — she didn't smoke or drink ("except for a few drops now and then under the duress of social propriety"): Wittlin calls her "Virtuous Zuzanna (Cnotliwa Zuzanna) in the literal sense".

2. It is written in Attic Greek, with much studiedly Antithetical rhetoric and frequent verbal borrowings from the classical authors, above all Thucydides.: For the few days of Passover, chametz and matzah are Antithetical.: In performing the physical act of turning from one vast panel to the next, the viewer felt the moment of pause between the two Antithetical extremes represented.