[I]t is not known whether they [the Maya] progressed beyond a vigesimal point to negative powers of 20, i.e. to vigesimal fractions.

Guilt that all the penitential fires of hereafter can not cleanse.

Enter Magee Mor Matthew, a rugged rough rugheaded kern, in strossers with a buttoned codpiece, his nether stocks bemired with clauber of ten forests, a wand of wilding in his hand.

Black velvet — that is, the sexual abuse of Aboriginal women — had become highly topical with the publication of Coonardoo and Capricornia, and Miles’ choices in this area still seem reasonable.