A seventeeth of 340 is 20.

After him followed a blesbok, then an impala, then a koodoo, then more goats, and many other animals, including a girl sewn up in the shining scaly hide of a boa-constrictor, several yards of which trailed along the ground behind her.

In some of the poems which discuss her predicament openly, the writing goes flat and notebookish.

Inside, somebody was playing a duet on syrinx and lyre.