Her most controversial feature was her face: the face of a precocious, prurient child, the kind of face that made the most innocent of lollipops look naughty. All the genders with a taste for human females found her repellent and irresistible at the same time.

These are simple pieces but some of them still surprise me.

The fourth planet in our solar system is often referred to as the Red Planet. . . . But to me . . . Mars will always be . . . the Orange Planet.

Time has stopped in the children's section; / it is 2:25 and 37 seconds.