Anyway, we take a moment to think of our legs, and even though our opponent gets closer to us in that time, we realize that our legs our dancing! So his legs must be dancing as well!

An advert had randomly caught his attention (on one of the hoardings at the edge of the pitch –

Man Utd v West Ham).

– which said simply: DADCHECK.COM.

Dad-check?

Dad check?

Bewildered, Mona takes them and glances at the top card.  It reads:

CAT

(noun)

A small domesticated carnivore, Felis domestica or F. catus, bred in a number of fun, fuzzy varieties.

“The fuck?” she says.

It is hard to mistrust a little old lady covered in mud.

Complacent reader!  Permit us to remind you that your correct understanding of the situation is due solely to the fact that we have been revealing to you the secret, innermost thoughts of these two young persons, which neither of them had so far ever felt able to express.

Yatima had been persona non grata for almost a gigatau after mocking the practice, briefly fashionable across the Coalition, of carrying around a framed portrait of one’s icon “ageing” in fast motion.

Dai-yu had a natural aversion to gatherings, which she rationalized by saying that since the inevitable consequence of getting together was parting, and since parting made people feel lonely and feeling lonely made them unhappy, ergo it was better for them not to get together in the first place.  In the same way she argued that since the flowers, which give us so much pleasure when they open, only cause us a lot of extra sadness when they die, it would be better if they didn’t come out at all.

The Shakey robot (so named because of its tendency to tremble during operation) demonstrated how logical reasoning could be integrated with perception and used to plan and control physical activity.

The shark is ideally suited for this research, he said, in part because it has a strikingly large nose.

“I’m totally in awe,” said Atema, walking away from the dissection bench. “I can’t believe how big it is. It’s five times bigger than an eel’s nose.”

The basic idea is that they would set up the most realistic nematode they could, then simulate poking it on the head.