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It is incumbent upon those of us who are fortunate to do something for the less fortunate.

Lots of small wrongs 'in service of a larger good'.

The world would be happier if there were not only more children, but if those woman who hadn't had children would just go and have a few.

Ursine: pertaining to or resembling bears.

...this is what Flora liked. She detested rows & scenes, but enjoyed quietly pitting her cool will against opposition. It amused her; & when she was defeated, she withdrew in good order & lost interest in the campaign.

A wolf who cannot howl is like a human who cannot laugh.

Is there room in the world for both science and magic?

The trio are in Japan at International Darwinists Symposium. Along with Albert Einstein we are introduced to Hiro Tanaka, working partner to Mr Doyle's step-brother Edgar. Lots of talk of biomechanics.

Literary wars between Jack's Ninja Fic & Scarlet's Brinkie Buckeridge continue. We are introduced to a familiar historical figure of Albert Einstein talking biomechanics and Hot Earth theory.

No wasting time, we're off on Churchill's mission to search for the Kusanagi sword, return it to Japanese government and thus thwart Nazi plans for power. Mr Doyle's scoundrel of a step-brother has disappeared whilst searching for the sword.

Jack's 15th birthday. Ipsa scientia protestas est Knowledge itself is power.

...what you read is more important in the long term than the man you marry..

Memories are like wolves. You can't lock them up and hope they leave you alone.

1900 is under way and Calpurnia is armed with her new red notebook to record her questions and observations. She loyally helps Travis, her pet-loving brother, with an aloof Armadillo and blue jays. And when she identifies a laughing full and a low barometer, Grandaddy realises a storm is in its way to Galveston. That storm is the historic disaster hurricane.

Granddaddy continues his tradition of wisdoms on the topic of failures and success and learning and never giving up. Regrets...once you have learned from them, they are best discarded.

Wang Lung compares their living in the city as a rat's in a rich man's house.

Oh bees!!

Clade: meaning branch, a group of organisms that consists of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants.

Adam in Antartica at Solstice. Ellie his GF is awaiting results of IVF. Major changes to landscape and the future. End of chapter good.

Astrid meets Shopping Trolley Guy aka Hiro Silvestri. He attends Valentine High same school. Mr Webber palmed Hiro's detention time to Astrid as she attempts to grow a community garden. Astrid's parents are separated due to her dental father having affair with dental nurse The Whippet.

Shopping Trolley Guy has named popular school girls Missolinis, Astrid thinks she's one of them

Nobody wants to go outside anymore, or imagine different ways of being.

Living in Valentine was like living in a bleak dystopian wasteland.