“You got a new jig, huh?” The boy looked out at Jones through his swirls of oiled hair. “What happened to the last one? He die or something?”

Coercive toilet training and obsessional maternal attitudes are not identified in most discontinuous soilers, and most soilers of whatever type are anxious.

A sorry scrub, said Mr. High-mind.

In Just My Type: A Book about Fonts (2010) Simon Garfield describes Johnston as 'a gaunt fine-boned man with a full moustache', and there's a picture of him at work with a quill pen that makes him look as other-worldly as a medieval sprite.