This is essentialised place: a somewhere that is nowhere and yet everywhere.

Mr. Hyett submitted to the meeting the following account of a series of experiments which he had tried upon the cultivation of the potatoe during the season just ended[…]

Our own feeling about thirteen, especially when joined with Friday, has added another to the long list of phobias; treiskaidekaphobia, or fear of the number thirteen (some of the other phobias are the well-known claustro-, acro-, and agora-, fear of being closed in, of heights, of open spaces, respectively; less known are ailurophobia, fear of cats, iatrophobia, fear of doctors, nucleomitotophobia, fear of atomic bombs, mageiricophobia, fear of having to cook, and, recalling FDR, phobophobia, fear of fear itself.)

Drivers are allowed 5 minutes for warm-up before the race starts.