In the mid-1930s, when Stalin was looking to make a statement with his new Metro, he consulted Underground engineers, who offered advice to the Russian Minister in charge of the Metro project, Nikita Khrushchev. He was severely told: 'Don't have a Circle Line - too many flat junctions.' Moscow did build a circle line, but with flying junctions, by which one track goes over another.

I don’t know all the theoretical abracadabra about how it works, I’m only its pilot.

But I don't believe any preacher should be riding on the coupling pole while some old goozer of a deacon or Jezebel sits on the front seat — that's his place, let him ride on the front seat and drive the team.

Many a week would frequent interlapse Ere yet a letter came