In other words, steampunk explores adjustment to an industrial culture from the opposite direction to cyberpunk -- but has very much the same agenda. Me, I'm trying to write dieselpunk ...

Now the question is whether this madrasah-building movement among the Sunni was meant only to check the growing Shi'i and Mu'tazili influences and turn the table on the anti-Sunnites.

Did you see that instructor do an Eskimo roll in this freezing water?

My fortune, said the Duke, is too vast to be hurt by a petty wound; and I have, as thou knowest, a thousand salves in store for the scratches and scars which it sometimes receives in greasing my machinery. / Your Grace does not mean Dr Wilderhead's powder of projection? / Pshaw! he is a quacksalver and mountebank.