"You know what Paddington is like when it's absolutely heaving. There is nowhere for kids. You're holding their hands, you're holding the luggage, you're trying to move the pram, you're working out where to go. It really is quite stressful.

Nobody likes riots, but when an over-zealous white Jim Crower collides with a too- much Jim Crowed Negro, hysteric sparks might fly capable of lighting dangerous emotional fires.

The Accountant had brought out already a box of dominoes, and was toying architecturally with the bones.

Dionysiodorus[…]sent a letter ad superos after he was dead, from the centre of the earth, to signify what distance the same centre was from the superficies of the same, viz. 42,000 stadiums […].