A strikingly beautiful bird, the quetzal is the national emblem of Guatemala, appearing on its currency and postage. The quetzal ranges from southern Mexico to Costa Rica.

‘Hark'ee, child,’ says she, ‘is not that very young gentleman now in bed with some nasty trull or other?’

Every object that might have been familiar was seen to be part of something vague and unknown and altogether unterrestrial — something infinitely vaster than any human eye could grasp, and infinitely alien, monstrous, and hideous […]

He was push polling, shaping opinion, manipulating as much as measuring.