That, however, is in the fantasyland where comic-strip characters grow up.

You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it wept.

Constant was fully dressed in blue-green evening shorts and a dinner jacket of gold brocade.

The incipient apical meristem (gemmule) is located between the two cotyledons of the mature embryo and consists of a pocket of approximately 200 meristematic cells[…].