[…] takes notice that the wrinkles in her tumtum are filling out so that she's beginning to lose some of that deflated or punctured look so common amongst [the hungry].

These works have their roots in Lowry's vast, lifelong experience as cinemaddict, roots that were set when as a child he saw the early epics of D.W. Griffith, roots that were nourished in the 1920s by the important contemporary films of European and Russian directors and, later, by films such as Orson Welles' Citizen Kane.

[…] I haue learned this faſhion of Sᵗ. Hierome the Oracle of Antiquitie, vvho vvas vvont to entertaine his Paula, and Euſtochium, Marcella, Principia, Hedibia, and other deuout Ladies, vvith learned canuaſes of the deep pointes of Diuinity.

He got bad, he got ratty, he would take it out on people around him. He was mean when it turned against him.