To be conscious is to be subject to just such a ping-pong of recurring nervous activities that effect muscle tone on one side and brain discharge on the other.

I follow Rattansi (2000: 123) on disrupting generalisations, for just as “there is no essential black British 'youthness'”, we know there is no essential white British “youthness” either.

That gawdy earwig, or my lord your patron, Whose pensioner you are.

Like the time he went to a buck's party and didn't come home all night.