Dickens's architextures do not present us with a form – of a building, of the city – as a meaning, system or structure. Rather, we are presented with the textual event, the architextural event, as a means of exposing the limits of fixed meaning, and, by this, the limits of the utterable.

...which Action did not so much grieve the English, as trouble and vex the Picts and Scots, who were incessantly gauled and frequently beat off by these Danish Troops.

The übersexual régime is a continuation of the metrosexual administration, unnoticed by the public and hyped up by the media who are padding themselves on the back for creating a régime change that isn’t really all that different anyway. Just as the Clear Skies Act is a continuation of polluting the country, übersexual is just a different word for more of the same.

Emily steps back behind a rope that a couple of hands stretches acrosst the stage; and then a couple more hands shoves a wooden runaway acrosst the orchestra rail …