We have published this paper under some difficulties, as printers and “printeresses,” like other mortals, want to take vacations and visit friends during the holidays.

Not one exhibits plane faces or straight edges, being mostly distorted triakis-octahedra or tetrakis-hexahedra with finely striated curved faces.

There's an old joke that I used to hear occasionally on British television shows: It's not theft—it's socialism! I couldn't help but think of it repeatedly as I read this paper on self-organizing institutional arrangements among pirates, which bears some disturbing similarities to an hours-long anarcho-capitalist bull session.

The fisherwoman cast her line.