Don't worry too much if they don’t give us everything we need in their rog answers; we'll fill the gaps in dep.

The regrown weed is almost as big now as before I mowed it down.

And now the lion lunged suddenly to earth and with a few spasmodic quiverings lay still.

So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.