From stem to stern, the [U.S.S.] Enterprise measures 1,040 ft.—roughly the height of the 102-story Empire State Building.

He stood across in the other garden, beside a bush of pale Michaelmas daisies, watching the last bees crawl into the hive.

They are paralytically fixed, existing simply as inert conduits which are not capable of acting expulsively on the contents themselves, and only discharge this part of their function in as far as they are acted upon by other contractile agents.

I shall ask you to view these remarks in the of foremath note rather than a preface or introduction, which imply a knowledge of what follows. I am using the word foremath to suggest what precedes without the knowledge of what follows.