Copernicus generalized the celestial motions by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air.

“It was so neighborhoody and lovely, but it was impractical” and felt strangely isolated.

What is interesting is how A/B/O stories explore these sexual scripts, and how the characters in them negotiate the disjunctures between the dominant scripts and their desires in their own lives and interpersonal relationships, […]

It means that even when we go to Mars, we have to look like the cast of Sesame Street.