It can no more survive as a plutodemocracy than it could, before the Civil War, survive half slave and half free.

This was a wonderful advert for the Premier League, with both Chelsea and United intent on all-out attack - but Ferguson will be concerned at how his side lost their way after imperiously controlling much of the first period.

We almost convinced his dad to ride the roller coaster, but he chickened out when he saw how high it went.

The relation of Tristram's death is thus distanced from the narrative to which it belongs, and it is also distanced in that we do not see it happen with our own eyes, but hear of it by a second-hand report which introduces it incidentally, not for its own sake.