Its tight, jabby songs, influenced equally by minimalist post-punk and sentimental white soul, end just when you think you’ve figured them out.

In one side of the prestigious commissions, public and private, sacred and profane, which could make the name of an artist, there was a more run of the mill style of painting which already enjoyed a vast clientéle at all levels of society.

This reciprocal uprendering of the selfhood, this altar-rite which is answered from heaven, this sacrifice met by sacrifice, is what we propose to mean when we use the single word, sacrifice, as the significant name for Life.

Persons who passed each other in boats upon the Thames used to blackguard each other, in a trial of wit