The provision of one of the basic requirements, a prepared track, commonly called a loipe, is now a normal feature of almost every resort in the world.

About 10 o'clock A.M. the second dabbing or washing was repeated, and was this time extended above the knees. Two more dabbings followed in the course of the day […]

Let me assure you, sir, that I will, in the interests of APANUA, continue the ceaseless fight against senseless acronymity, initialese, indecipherable abbreviation.

I eyed her. For sure she had some characteristics of a puella, but she wasn’t only that. […] “Listen,” I said, “my favorite aunt, my mother’s sister Marge, was a puella. As a grown woman she sat by the window for hours, gazing at the horizon. ‘One day,’ she would sigh, ‘my ship will come in.’ She lived in a small town on the prairies, a thousand miles from any sea. […] You see, puers and puellas are always about to make a change; one day they’ll do what’s necessary—but not just yet.[…]”