The natural rhythm of the male is a phallic one of rise and fall, whether it involves towers, stock markets, or whole civilizations.

It may have been copied from the Northern Baldor myth, for Gothic arms and arts had been known for many centuries in the East and West in the 6th yearhundred, and Greek-writing heretics and bookmakers copied from all quarters.

The collapse of Enron wiped out the life savings of many people, leaving them poor in their retirement.

Even the blithely unselfconscious Homer is more than a little freaked out by West’s private reverie, and encourages his spawn to move slowly away without making eye contact with the crazy man.