If only I could manage to substitute some anguish irrelevant to all this so as to distract myself from its overwhelming resonance in a world otherwise anguishless.

Men In Black 3 finagles its way out of this predicament by literally resetting the clock with a time-travel premise that makes Will Smith both a contemporary intergalactic cop in the late 1960s and a stranger to Josh Brolin, who plays the younger version of Smith’s stone-faced future partner, Tommy Lee Jones.

Fearful of falling, he inched along the window ledge.

A redoubled numbering never eveneth with the first.