It is not till the Yangtze reaches Sha-shih that its character completely changes. The first note of change is a great embankment, thirty feet high, which protects the region from inundation. Below Sha-shih the vast river becomes mixed up with a network of lakes and rivers, connected by canals, the area of the important Tungting Lake being over 2000 square miles.

Babu Racthu gestured to his warriors. Stake him out for the wildthings-kill the troll-bitch! You jump to conclusions! Pulfifer protested as the warriors dismounted and came toward hi. The trolless helped me escape her tribe, and is escorting me to the border of their domain! She herself is a rare treasure, a curiosity fit for the mangerie of any collector of obscure life-forms! As you know, females of her species are rarely, if ever, seen by human eyes!

Though the reign of the Lilly Pulitzer planner is long past, we still manage to convince ourselves every year that we will become the next icon of Studyblr and commence a desperate search for pastel highlighters, rainbow Post-it notes and, of course, the perfect gel pen.

Hiro Protagonist [in Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson] must win, one might say, on both Surf and Turf against the wonderfully evil Evangelist Minister R. Bob Riff and his allies, both in the world of violence, swordplay, and aircraft carriers and in the world of ones and zeros.