Sep 6, 2016, Stow Butcher, “Pretender to work for Magazine is a son of a wh*re.”, in ukr.politics, Usenet, retrieved 2022-07-17:

Sooner or later it may dawn upon the present generation that it has witnessed and is witnessing the birth of a new world of interdependent peoples, in which many of the old names and shibboleths have either changed their meanings or lost them entirely.

Our discussion that day about natational inspiration (the drawing of breath into the lungs while swimming) led to dialogue about of the rheoology of poetic inspiration.

All that was familiar and trustworthy was back there, where the sun was sinking. To the east lay the unimaginable, the dangerous, and the wearisome; and a feeling of timidity came over his bold heart: this water world was dangersome.