They would have named him something dignified: Ethan, or Tristram. Something that couldn't easily be shortened.

Who has not marked, where the full cheek should be, Incipient lines of lank flaccidity, Lymphatic pallor where the pink should glow, And where the throb of transport, pulses low?

Sydney is a fast city, and the pace is becoming increasingly more frantic.

In fact, I just saw the movie Shirley Valentine (for the umpteenth time!), and couldn't even look at the adult Marjorie Majors without seeing Patsy and her boofed up hair and red lipstick and long cigarette holder.