High Jack had been drinking too much rum ever since we landed in Boca. You know how an Indian is—the palefaces fixed his clock when they introduced him to firewater.

The English band Crass sounded like a bag of rocks: scrabbly drum rolls, clanky guitars, no bass end, the words a jabbery Cockney caterwaul through endless stanzas of common meter.

These Lomekwian tools, such as the one illustrated in Fig. 3.1, were an earth-shattering find. They are hundreds of thousands of years older than the previously oldest stone tools found and they absolutely and unquestionably could not have been made by any human being (if your definition of human restricts itself to members of genus Homo, which did not come about until about half a million years later). Finally, these Lomekwian stone tools are of a different style than all previously known stone tools.

Like a weary insomniac, France too greeted the relieving dawn chiefly longing for one thing only – repose.