Barça had frozen. Alexander-Arnold saw it, caught Divok Origi’s eyes and pinged the perfect cross for a double-take of a winning goal. This was a 20-year-old local lad, product of down the road, out-thinking Barcelona, making them look like callow, pigeon-chested schoolboys.

The resourcefulness of the Taipings was not too greatly occupied with the establishment of the Celestial Capital to prevent reaching out for the vital strategic centers of Chinkiang and Yangchow, the former a commanding site at the intersection of the Grand Canal with the Yangtse River, the latter on the canal about twenty-five or thirty miles away, both together controlling that vital artery through which flowed the supplies of tribute grain to the capital.

The execution of a sequence may involve some or all of the three stages; if only amplitude gain is to be corrected and not sequency and target specification, then correction can be rapid enough to change an arpeggio-like run in “mid flight.”

“Better bring yo’ cher enside,” added the woman after a few moments, and he complied.