Indeed she boycotts the construction of a setting, and when she announces that “she would go out of a window and the hotel would go into pieces” (45), she threatens to destroy the house of fiction, the very framework of the window of imagination. The suggestion of smashed glass, of a transfenestration that would let a hotel burst into pieces, plays on the topos of the destroyed mirror-image.

The Flaxie, having whiteneſſe, appertaines to Temperance, because it makes Candidam & mundam animam.

In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron.

With its far larger population, China’s economy will inevitably come to eclipse ours, but that is hardly a mortal threat. In climate change, the world faces a huge collective-action problem that will require global cooperation. According to this view, treating China like an adversary will only frustrate our own long-term goals.