to repair a house, a road, a shoe, a ship

'Och, it's you, is it, Mr Kilmartin? Wherever have ye been? The young lady was fair worrit to death when ye didna come home.'

Lazarus calls this postcolonial criticism's reading of Fanon “back to front,” from the call for liberation in The Wretched of the Earth (1961) to the presciently poststructuralist sense of antiracial, nonparticularist identity in Black Skin, White Masks (1952).

However, on the morning in question, there was a ground mist which might have played a role.