-before or after the creation of the Connection. The connection to the
-server may then be forged by the C<connect()> method, the arguments of
-which are the same as those of the C<new()> constructor.
+before or after the creation of the Connection. Alternatively and
+equivalently, C<create()> may be passed a list of key-value option
+pairs directly. The connection to the server may then be forged by
+the C<connect()> method, the arguments of which are the same as those
+of the C<new()> constructor.