Sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking when I said / I'd like to smash every tooth in your head.

The press took seriously all Shaw's provocative ambiguities and clownings, and Lady Astor was identified with his most outrageous actions and statements.

“Snail” is a quirky alt-pop number that observes the world from the perspective of a gastropod, while “Winter” is a sweetly sung exercise in introspection.

It is a little too pemmicanised for everybody's taste; the author's limits compel him to a severe economy of detail in the very large field he has taken.