Three or four strange-looking things now came close to our boat, which I understood were called ‘catamarans’, consisting of nothing more than two or three large trees, the trunk part only strongly lashed together, upon which sat two men nearly in a state of nature […] .

Evident in the representation of three of early cinema's most popular stars, this tendency to construct the persona anagraphically - to refer to the self as a token of a transindividual category -- is a common feature of early fan discourse.

Like a pestilence, it doth infect / The houses of the brain.

Yes, researchers at Georgia Tech in the United States have found a way to harvest small, irregular biomotion - this means movement - and turn it into usable energy, a breakthrough that has been achieved through hamster power.