Computers make creating and sharing picspam easy, but the power to pause, to stop time, and to frame one’s own still shots came with the rise of the VCR.

No myths of ages, dark, unproved — Traditions crude of hidden yore; Nor fondsome fictions, easy grooved, On customs lost in trackless lore.

'Haven't you got little feet?' I said. 'Has everybody got titchy plates in Belgium?'

'The old trammans at Ballakoig were cut down, and the fairies came every night to weep and lament.'