The domestic storm-cone was hoisted, and I shipped myself on board a small trading vessel bound from Constantinople, by classic seas whose every wave throbs with a deathless memory, to the Grecian Islands and the Levant.
From the tiniest throbs and wobbles of distant stars , they can infer the size and character and even potential habitability of planets much too remote to be seen ,, planets so distant that it would take us half a million years in a spaceship to get there.
In a world of supermodels and Hollywood heart throbs, it's easy to assume many of us want our men to be manly and our women girlish and womanly.
