Then she sat on the bank with her hands full of flowers, mostly golden water-blobs.

‘Gomez,’ said the mortician, ‘is an expert only on the involutions of his own rectum.’

And in their place, he offers behavioristically characterized substitutes.

Thus, the myths of cinema and syndicated cartoon have served to unite the diverse races far more than the clump of the cricket-ball and the clipped rebukes and laudations of their masters.