[…] that I couldn’t return her gaze directly had also to do with this unharmonious relation between body and skull, and its implication, to me, of some early misfortune, of something vital lost or beaten down, and, by way of compensation, something vastly overdone. I thought of a trapped chick that could not get more than its beaked skull out of the encircling shell. I thought of those macrocephalic boulders the Easter Island heads.

My father, in conjunction with his tannery, was operating an alpargata factory (an alpargata was a cheap slipper of leather sole and knitted top of bright colours) and this young man was an employee.

Another sauce, mainly used as a condiment, is harissa, made from pulverised chillies, garlic, salt and olive oil. Harissa is not generically Moroccan, but nevertheless is often found accompanying tajines and couscous.

I would say more, but RADLEY's come up to tell me I must go and meet that tarnation BANCROFT.