As a railwayman put it to me: When I saw chums of mine took their families down there by car, I could see the writing on the wall. We all had free passes, yet they got the car out!
I know a pool, where shadows fall / From fir-trees, melancholy tall, / That dream and quiver round the rim, / And in the molten centre swim, / Where taper tops do all unite / Bemirrored in its silvern light.
It wasn’t a bad plant that of mine, on Fikey, the man accused of forging the Sou’ Westeru Railway debentures—it was only t’ other day—because the reason why? I’ll tell you.
We remind the reader that the barycentric subdivision sd(P) of a preordered set P is the poset of chains in P, ordered by inclusion.
