Say that the Cherubs carved in stone, / … / Used to sing in heavenly tone, / Above and round the sacred places / They guard, with wingèd baby-faces.

They also invented the Pondus Judaeus, a bronze sheath worn so as to pull on the skin of the preputial fragment to make it re-cover the glans.

If he is standing close beside me I know that our separate axes of vision will meet at an acute angle in the centre of his object, and if we are further apart, at an obtuser angle.

Now he turned his flight, a prayer short of light-speed, towards the wandering star. Jedden had long ago abolished fear. Yet he experienced a strange psychosomatic sensation in that part of the splinter ship that corresponded to his testicles.