Back in school again Maxwell plays the fool again. Teacher gets annoyed

Is it true what they say about once you go black . . . .

[…] Heaven’s face doth glow; Yea, this solidity and compound mass, With tristful visage, as against the doom, Is thought-sick at the act.

I remember going to the pictures at the local flea pit and seeing Riders of Death Valley, a serial in which I avidly #followed the fortunes of my hero Jim . . .