* Excerpt on the geology of Athens from: A Geological Companion to Greece and the Aegean by Michael and Reynold Higgins, Cornell University Press, 1996

* IEEE History Center's Edwin H. Armstrong: Excerpt from " The Legacy of Edwin Howard Armstrong ," by J. E. Brittain Proceedings of the IEEE, vol.

Excerpt from Josiah King's The Examination and Tryal of Father Christmas ( 1686 ), published shortly after Christmas was reinstated as a holy day in England.

* Excerpt from October 1996 Kemp-Gore Debate

* Excerpt from Carnap, Rudolf.

* Excerpt from The Hunted, 1942 – 1945

** " Excerpt from Memoirs of a Martian Demirep " ( 2007 ).

* " Excerpt from the Third and Last Volume of Tribes of the Pacific Northwest " in Full Spectrum 5 ( 1995 )

Excerpt from a one-time pad

* Excerpt from the Illustrated London News, January 11, 1862 describing the Canals of Canada.

– Excerpt from Saint Stephen's admonitions to his son Emeric.

* Excerpt from Wilkinson's book Chinese Origin Of Playing Cards

* Excerpt from the report on Steven Hassan's Freedom of Mind Web site

* Excerpt from the report on the Rick Ross Institute Web sit

* Excerpt from William Paley's 1802 book Natural Theology

* Excerpt from John Damascene

It is described in a short footnote as " Excerpt from Walt Mervin's ' Certain Essays in History '".

* Excerpt from Siege of the South Pole ; includes picture of Gauss under sail

* Reflections on a Child's Water Wheel — an Excerpt from Thoreau's 1848 Journal

* Excerpt of 2008 biography from Vanity Fair

* Stephenson's short story " The Great Simoleon Caper " which refers to both the Metaverse seen in Snow Crash and the First Distributed Republic seen in The Diamond Age ( another short story which fits in the Diamond Age milieu and even shares a character is " Excerpt from the Third and Last Volume of Tribes of the Pacific Coast ").

Excerpt from " My experiments with truth "-the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi in its original Gujarati.

* Excerpt from Archive Fever

* Excerpt from " Différance "

Deconstruction is a form of semiotic analysis, derived mainly from French philosopher Jacques Derrida's 1967 work Of Grammatology.