[…] Machado, who turns what might seem like a handicap, that lankiness, to rubbery advantage in his sinuous carving and slackly cool pullouts.

I always thought of Thoreau’s puns as more clever than ha-ha funny.

At that time Shkoder was a centre of intellectual life whose writers interacted constantly with those of Prizren in Kosov@, than with the rest of Albania […]

Shifting 1001 to the left yields 10010; shifting it right yields 100.