By contrast, an active solar collector is an ancillary system; instead of incorporating heat collection, storage, and release into the structure of the building, active systems are made up of devices attached to the structure.

I want to interrogate Anna's grandmother to learn the grace of her dervish heritage, to see her perform the whirl—forbidden to females—in the intimacy of her home, where, Anna's mother told me, she was renowned for outwhirling even the fittest of men.

Summer bebopped over, holding a cup of spiked punch in each hand.

The other woman took a pair of carding-combs and began to card, but she had no wool upon them.