From Ford Lahaye it is a three hours’ sail in a canoe, along a coast indented with green valleys that run back climbingly through fields of sugar cane.

The intention of this preface is not to persuade mankind to enter into our quarrels, but to vindicate the author from being censured for taking any indecent liberty with a faculty he has the honour to to a member of.

Hernandez's structure - iambic sexameter in the first, second, fourth, sixth lines, and iambic tetrameter in the third and fifth lines - may be successful for descriptive purposes, but it is hardly successful in dramatic passages.

Cyberdesign is what design becomes when it is supported by cyberactive systems.