It is not so much a disability as a diffability. People with AS are often brilliant in some respects, but they may display different social and emotional responses than what is considered the norm.

We may perhaps see the deeper reason in the fact that the kings and the ruling classes of the Kassites had meanwhile (after 1400) become “babylonised;” that is, that they felt, and affected to feel themselves, Babylonians.

—Rather bleak in wintertime, I should say. Martello you call it? —Billy Pitt had them built, Buck Mulligan said, when the French were on the sea. But ours is the omphalos.

As there is a partial vacuum inside the drum, the liquid is sucked inside the drum and the insolubles are deposited on the outer surface of the membrane filter.