I summoned up all my remaining willpower.

There are two kinds of ancestral spirits. Some represent founders of the individual family, while others represent founders of the community, such as priests and kings. The spirits of founders of communities are called territorial or tutelary spirits in the literature for the region. Tutelary spirits cut across family lines because they belong to the community and are evoked on its behalf (generally only for rainmaking). They are associated with public proscriptions, and their propitiation is controlled by chiefs, kings, and priests.

While walking in the off-peak over the small wood-panelled footbridge [at Baker Street station] that connects the two original platforms - which itself resembles an old-fashioned railway carriage hoisted above the tracks - I would not be surprised to see a top-hatted man approaching me.

[…] Of springly blossoms they've glean'd the best, And on the wayside reclined to rest.