There was his father bending over his papers at his writing-table before the window, busy as a bee no doubt at some new enthusiasm which was destined to infuriate his neighbours.

Postcolonialism might well be another linguistic construct, desperately begging for a referent that will never show up, simply because it never existed on its own and was literally worded into existence by the very term that pretends to be born from it.

That's when they just let go and do the multidirectional splatter-gun thing on an employer who's been asking for it. Who doesn't love hammering those out at the end of a long day?

2008 June 22, Sebastian Abbot, “Oil minister: Saudi willing to increase crude output”, Associated Press