A salesman came to my door, but the dogs soon saw him off.

Our elation, our artistic response to imagination or sublimity, depends on our being overwhelmed immersively, and the constructions we subsequently make are but necessary leverages to sustaining and explaining that end.

The Fleming Denis van Alsloot’s ‘Procession of the Religious Orders from the Town of Antwerp…’, painted in 1616 shows with excellent clarity six musicians playing a trombone, two alto pommers, a discant schalmey, cornetto, and a dulzian played on the left side with the right hand uppermost, the exact opposite to the dulzian’s descendant, the bassoon, which is played the other way round.

Additionally — quite unusual among the post-encephalitic patients I have seen — Mr G. showed bilateral signs of upper motorneurone deficit and a mild mental dullness besides his 'queerness.'