We live in a society that sets great store by science and technology.

Stocked with characters whose names are representative of their failings (aptonyms, a standard comic technique), The Stepsure Letters is not read today outside the university classroom

I need to know that you will always be The same old someone that I knew What will it take till you believe in me The way that I believe in you?

I'll mountebank their loves, Cog their hearts from them.