Grigson sums up this almost utilitarian aspect of the state of detachment thus: Not visited enough, each poet knows His deadly fondness for his own mishaps, The way he fails to sort the full-time births From all his misengendered scraps.

Jollies? Lord help such jollies! Crish, crash! there goes the jib-stay! Blang-whang! God!.

Thus, again to quote Mr. Homer Smith, it has been held that 'In general the pastoral incidents serve as an underplot, utterly foreign in spirit to the main plot.'

Unfortunately, many patients (and some doctors) have steroidphobia, which means that they are unduly apprehensive about using prednisone for short periods of time in unstable asthma.