His desire for that enchantress led him to financial ruin!

After a prolonged session with a cookbook, she selected two or three recipes she considered promising, went to her grocer’s, and read off her list of ingredients: a quarter pound of white seedless grapes, three oranges, two tart apples, three cloves, the breast of a chicken, a can of pigs’ feet, a spring onion, a zucchino, three leeks, and a half pint of dried black-eyed peas. The grocer paled as he listened. “Lady,” he said, “what are you making—a painting?”

The reason for this height-fear on the part of Wingless was not at first understood.

At a more regional scale, Farnetani et al. [2012] point out that 208Pb*/206Pb* increases from Hawaiʻi southward to Samoa. Their modeling results demonstrate that such large-scale latitudinal variations in isotopic signatures do not obscure bilateral asymmetry in the Hawaiian plume, but only add azimuthal and radial variations within the compositional hemispheres. Thus, whereas it may not be possible to characterize the geochemical properties of the LLSVP precisely at this time, ...