This is the way to end the vexatious Queſtions about them [the Kingdom of the Picts], being taken out of the moſt authentick Records of Ireland, which are of ſuch irrefragable Authority, That ſome are perſuaded, had they been known to [William] Camden, he would never have diſputed the matter. And ſo I think too. But this irrefragable Authority is that of the Pſalter of Caſhel; […]

‘Even if Kong follows, he has to travel overland, and it’s dollars to doughnuts we beat him.’

Having a costumed superhero abduct the vicar was an utter non sequitur in the novel.

It has a geometrical strapwork interlace of linked octograms with central eight-pointed stars.