The wound was washed with the juice of a young green coconut, sutured with a fine coconut fibre using the sharpened wing bone of a flying fox and then dressed with a tagete leaf over which was laid the outer layer of a banana flower. The whole was then sealed from the air with a mixture of pepper, lime and young betel nut chewed together. Mrs. Parkinson said she knew a man who had lived for thirty years after this operation, but she thought this was exceptional.

My only hope at this point is that SMG refuses to appear on Angel in the future, thus saving us from the inevitable Bangel ending for that series.

And as E. Rushmore Coglan prattled of this little planet I thought with glee of a great almost-cosmopolite who wrote for the whole world and dedicated himself to Bombay.

For Gibreel, Allie Cone the vanquisher of Everest is the exotic other, is powerful independent unsuffocating Western woman.