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“He walked resolutely over to the portrait hole, pushed it open, climbed out of it, and found himself face-to-face with Hermione. “Hello,” she said, holding up a stack of toast, which she was carrying in a napkin. “I brought you this. . . . Want to go for a walk?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Her name’s Aurora McAuley; among many other things, she’s President of the Society for Creative Anachronisms. And if you thought Draco was impressive, wait until you see some of their other—ah—creations.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey

“Based on this decomposition of the deformation it is sometimes desirable to directly measure the shear response of a material. This can be achieved, for example, by performing torsion experiments.”
― Jorgen S. Bergstrom, Mechanics of Solid Polymers: Theory and Computational Modeling