Article note: The irony that two years later this article about trying to break down paywalls on scientific publishing has been paywalled is a pretty good sign of the state of things.
Despite my manly looks, I am horribly timid. My romantic soul gets all clammy and shivery at the thought of running into some awful indecent unpleasantness.
— Humbert Humbert, from Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita”