Each time someone pulls a staple out, there's a toing sound that echoes down the wire, followed by a vibration, toing, toing, toing.

My Lord you do me moſt inſupportable vexation.

A graduate of film studies in New York, May has had a hand in editing two of his three videos. Each casts him as a bespectacled dag in a world of glamour.

Other beasts, too, roamed at their graceful will across the landscape: the ox and the wide-horned aurochs, the slouching camelopard, the corkindrill — each animal as fat as a burgher and similarly complacent.