In San Francisco, the organization of the event [Critical Mass] has been as much a part of its success as anything else. There is no one in charge. Ideas are spread, routes shared, and consensus sought through the ubiquitous copy machine—a xerocracy in which anyone is free to make copies of their ideas and pass them around.

“That's a rather ugly colour for a house, don't you think?” — “Quite.”

The court found plaintiff's service of process effective, although the defendant refused to receive the complaint.

In these glorious envisionings, the ministerial Brainard, effete and villainly, had looked on gloomily from his place at the foot of the table, next to the kitchen maid.[…]Brainard—it had to be Brainard, Henry knew, not effete and villainly at all, but a perfectly ordinary fellow—[…]