“A bloody cum-catcher!” he cursed. “You'd rather be a whore than a respectable married lady?”

The practice in most African and some Asian cities is for private lorries to suck up human waste and dump it in rivers. … In tackling the shit problem, economics could well be a clincher.

Then the conversation turned to a vexatious old topic: Denis's continuing futile attempts to farspeak other telepaths.

[…] there were hastily produced B movies, such as the peplums, the spaghetti westerns, the detective stories, the horrors.