Unlike poliomyelitis, paralysis in China syndrome is symmetrical. In addition, cases are seasonal.

What we should do here is not to set up a contrast between worldbound individuals and world lines, but to recognize that world lines are an indispensable means of speaking and thinking of the usual perfectly ordinary-looking entities, the ordinary denizens of the actual world.

For me, the idea of 'bananahood' encapsulates many of the driving questions about the way we understand ethnicity in the contemporary world. It bespeaks the possibilities of ethnic identification and acculturation which are not automatically tied with racial appearance.

Recently that publication [Collier's Weekly] has been filling its readers with the good old hokum about red likker and its steady disappearance, and if what has been offered be but half true, beer, light wine and all of the other beverages which have been tabooed by law, are on their way to that place where nothing returns.