Next up the new single from Beyoncé, but first a shout to Barry Bloggins and his wife Belinda...

They are shoutings of a layman expecting the fall of the besieged Jericho, but with no more definite preadvertisement of the policy that should follow the fall than was implied in the fact that the priests who were loudest in blowing the rams' horns for the surrender were Milton's five Presbyterian friends, the Smectymnuans.

Copper remembered the old Grimoire she and Silver had used to learn gray magic.

He glared malevolently at the shining porcelain, and then shook his head lugubriously.