Then the expanded meadows, the corn and grass, the same dusty road, the same tree too, under which, a weary, satchelled school-boy, I had rested.

These young women say they are 'proud as punch' to have sex with the jock, because this will entitle the puck bunny to 'bragging rights'...

The unmistakable directness and violence of Jesus' action shows it to have been undertaken and executed precisely as if the milieu were indeed not there to be counted. Here again is the character of action taken in the very face of the milieu without taking any notice of it. In any event, the one certainty is that the Roman milieu, so entirely ignored by his teaching, here came conclusively to touch upon it, putting Jesus to an end.

Earrings appear soon after: perhaps the first earringed black Magus in European art is in the Bavarian Master of the Polling Altarpiece’s eponymous work of 1444 (Munich, Alte Pinakothek).