The crowd was patient and never dreamed of storming Chungnanhai (which could scarcely have resisted a mass assault) and the most battle-tested groups made no attempt to send their commandos to kidnap the “highest leader.” Calm—if one may use the word—prevailed, and the group leaders were content to lead their followers in chanting slogans against Liu and quotations from Mao. The Chairman, like Vice-Chairman Lin Piao, had been away on a tour of inspection in the provinces since early July; at the time of the siege of Chungnanhai, he was in Wuhan.

The chariot of paternal deity […] / Itself instinct with spirit, but convoyed / By four cherubic shapes.

So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, then he scrooged again[.]

Diameters of cells in auxosporulating cultures were measured using dmfMeasure software [38 ].