This is a footgun! ES6 should have specified that it either fulfills, rejects, or just throws some sort of synchronous error. Unfortunately, because of precedence in Promise libraries predating ES6 Promise, they had to leave this gotcha in there, […]

Cousins’ orientalist thinking was largely inspired by a long history of late nineteenth century British vegetarianist feminist thinking which was in some part later formalised by the Theosophical Society, which she, together with a remarkable number of Irish writers of the period, would join.[…]Cousins’ friends may not have been quite so far off the mark when they attributed her sexual trauma to her vegetarianist politics. Her celibacy and her vegetarianism emerged at precisely the same hour.

Accordingly if we can show that a barbarous custom, like that of the priesthood of Nemi, has existed elsewhere; if we can detect the motives which led to its institution; if we can prove that these motives have operated widely, perhaps universally, in human society...

This Virgilian diversion, together with the spectral thoughts incident to All Hallows’ Eve with its Witch-Sabbaths on the hills, produced in me last Monday night a Roman dream of such supernal clearness and vividness, and such titanic adumbrations of hidden horror, that I verily believe I shall some day employ it in fiction.