Then the conversation turned to a vexatious old topic: Denis's continuing futile attempts to farspeak other telepaths.

[…] there were hastily produced B movies, such as the peplums, the spaghetti westerns, the detective stories, the horrors.

The practice in most African and some Asian cities is for private lorries to suck up human waste and dump it in rivers. … In tackling the shit problem, economics could well be a clincher.

“A bloody cum-catcher!” he cursed. “You'd rather be a whore than a respectable married lady?”