Wake's Island next claimed my attention. On the 19th we reached its parallel, and hove-to till daylight of the 20th, when we discovered it, bearing west-by-north, about nine miles distant.…Wake's Island is a low coral one, of triangular form, and eight feet above the surface.…The position of Wake's Island was found by my observations of equal altitudes on shore to be in longitude 166° 31' 30" E., and latitude 19° 10' 54'7 N.

He built his first hoverchair all by himself out of scavenged parts when he was only eight! And ever since, he's continued to upgrade it.

Irigaray discusses the facets of the morphology of mucus and mucous membranes most fully in 'The Limits of the Transference' and in An Ethics of Sexual Difference, where she indicates that a distanceless proximity can be dangerous for both subjects[…]

Instead he’s daymaring the burning sandy wastes of southern Iraq – the unknowable concrete-and-mud-brick towns and forgotten bazaars where the Rams could well lose themselves … in a wilderness of dust.