...and I sometimes think whether, like the ancient king, it would not be prudent to make an offering to destiny, and throw my set of emeralds into the lake." Emily could not but deprecate the emeralds being destined to any such preventive service;...

The mid-ocean ridges are where new crust is added to the earth, so MORB is the basic building material of our world.

Instead of seeing two-spirit persons as transsexuals who try to make themselves into the opposite sex, it is more accurate to understand them as individuals who take on a gender status that is different from both men and women.

We knew they were coming to children's records. It was only a matter of time before Bruce Wain and Dick Grayson would come Batmobiling off the turntable.