O! she is fallen Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea Hath drops too few to wash her clean again, And salt too little which may season give To her foul-tainted flesh.

As “ the porwigle or tadpole” or “ loggerhead” or “polehead” is popularly supposed to be all head and tail, and as the latter seems to wiggle more than the former, a hint as to the precise meaning of the compounds “polwygle” and polliwog would have been welcome.

In the previous section we mentioned that we do no know, for instance, whether the Euler–Mascheroni constant or the numbers 𝜁₂ₖ₊₁ for k>2 are rational.

[It] was sunset time. In a short while, the sky would turn sky-blue pink as the earth turned away from the sun and the clouds remained.