[H]e ſeem'd amaz'd at the Sight of our Bark, having never ſeen any thing of that Kind before, for their Boats are moſt wretched Things, ſuch as I never ſaw before, having no Head or Stern, and being made only of the Skins of Goats, ſewed together with dried Guts of Goats and Sheep and done over with a kind of ſlimy Stuff like Roſin and Oil, but of a moſt nauſeous, odious Smell, […]

It is a goal that...I have been obsessing over, and emailing myself on my crackberry so I don’t forget ideas, and one that I bother my friends with constantly.

It was hard to hear his speech over the noise.

Mao’s father decided to apprentice Mao to a rice shop in Hsiangtan with which he had some connection. Mao was not against the idea, but he had also heard from his cousin Wen about a new school in his mother’s county of Hsianghsiang which taught— and by radical methods—some of the “new knowledge” of the West, with less emphasis on the classics.]