We're living in a world where anyone has the potential for 15 minutes or streams of fame; this is the rise and era of the weblebrity, as I call the elite few who get more views on YouTube than Nike or even Apple.

We have often seen each other, said Little Dorrit, recognising the sexton, or the beadle, or the verger, or whatever he was, when I have been at church here.

If survival is not a remnant or leftover as it is in undeadness, the conditions of life appear all the more pressing since survival is not a substrate of human existence but an ontological necessity.

Elsewhere it has been said that in the lack of frigates (of course better sailers than line-of-battle ships) in the English squadron up the Straits at that period, the Indomitable was occasionally employed not only as an available substitute for a scout, but at times on detached service of more important kind.