CHEESELET […] Line a buttered baking-dish with the bread, lay over the cheese, then bread until the dish is full, having top layer bread buttered side down. Make a custard of three beaten eggs, 1 pint of milk, 1 teaspoonful salt, pour over the bread and cheese, and bake twenty-five minutes.

As one spacecraft lurches and drags through the Earth's uneven gravity field, the second follows 210 km behind, measuring changes in their separation to the nearest micron (a thousandth of a millimetre).

He said there were already plans for a tramline, and a museum of the theatre. Folk should not, he implied, waste their bawbees on the devil's spinning wheel.

I have continued in this vein by arguing that even when the black subject turns pathological, becomes the bad black, his antisociality, his niggerishness, once again does the important work of demonstrating that he is removed from the main currents of modern society […]