In place of the idea which runs through the Tanakh and New Testament of a God intimately involved with his creation and providentially repeatedly intervening in it, there was the concept of a God who had certainly created the world and set up its laws in structures understandable by human reason, but who after that allowed it to go its own way, precisely because reason was one of his chief gifts to humanity, and order a gift to his creation. This was the approach to divinity known as deism.

His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all sluggs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover.

That looks like a reaggravation on his leg; he injured it two weeks ago as well.

The hippo heard us, and, like a baseball player caught off base, tried to get back to the river.