None of the gallery staff took any notice of a gangly, stick-thin, nose-picking, acne-faced youth wearing a plastic imitation leather jacket, winkle-picker shoes and a greasy Mick Jagger hairstyle. We all looked like that in those days, except those poncey Mods.

crown prince

a unipeltate crustacean

And indeed if he does escape it will seem a miracle, and almost a divine intervention, not only to the pursued but to the pursuers.