At certain times in the ice-mountains of Switzerland there happen cracks which have shewn the great thickness of the ice, as some of these cracks have measured three or four hundred ells deep.

In a number of posts about globohomo, it seemed like a generalized reference to contemporary economic life—there were references to globohomo megacorporations, globohomo materialism, and a longing for the upcoming post-globohomo, techno-feudalistic ages of revenge and strife. The term homo is usually used as derogatory shorthand for homosexuals, but in this context served two purposes: It also meant “homogenization,” the increasing sameness of everything worldwide.

But from the exility of bones, thinnesse of skulls, smallnesse of teeth, ribbes, and thigh-bones; not improbable that many thereof were persons of minor age, or women.

cranium + -al → cranial