So the Knicks, who began the season with a depleted frontcourt, have muddled through the last six weeks with a depleted backcourt as well.

She was told some bulldust. The same bulldust they tell any dickhead willing to part with money: that she'd be rich one day and live to a ripe old age.

The climbing was nowhere difficult, perhaps only Moderate by British standards, but it was sometimes exposed. We led through, taking it in turns to lead alternate pitches. Probably a guide would have moved up continuously, […]

The train stopped: the slow aisle, still interrupted with outlooking, then the descent among faces grave, decorous, and judicial: …