My height tracks my father's at my age, so I might end up as tall as him.

If his stature in earthly measurement be taken as five feet ten inches, he would tower into the Phobian sky to a hight of over on and one-tenth miles.

He distinguishes three main domains in the Penghu archipelago(Fig. 2): (1) in the main northern islands and in central Wangan (Pachao) island, alkali basalts and tholeiites alternate, (2) to the northeast, within a NW-SE trending zone, the alkali basalts contain numerous ultramafic nodules and (3) to the south, on Chimei and the surrounding islands, alkali basalts clearly dominate. . . . Four ages may be related to the major alkali-tholeiite basalt flows of the northern group of islands and Wangan (Pachao) island, 12.7, 13.3, 13.5 and 16.2 Ma.

For Margaret, this escape had earlier meant a release from her oppressive sense of the sinfulness of conjugal relations — having given birth to a child born in sin; . for James, escape had lain in his assumptions of respectability, his hope for release from the stigmatized taboos of his dissolute ways through the amalgam of gentlemen rake, of poet and drunkard, of a self-elect and self-condemned man.