During our travels in Mesopotamia we also studied the similar pottery of the aneolithic age found at Abu Shahrein, Tell el-'Obeid and elsewhere in Babylonia, as well as at several sites in the East Tigris country and Assyria, from all of which we made collections which supplement the sherds from Tell el-'Obeid and Kerkufk now in the Baghdad Museum.

'You bein' there an' him bein' there an' you such a fug of a loser an' him such a fug of a winner . . .'

The slot is not a glamorous job. It hasn't been discovered by Shubert Alley or the fiction magazines. To the cub reporter, eager for by-lines and self-expression, the whole copy desk looks like a backwater.

Look, Mark, your attempt at pseudonymity is transparent.