Bereft by the power failures, people who would normally be relaxing indoors in their viewing rooms with their home media had ventured out into the windy darkness, darker than ever they had expected or known, to places of entertainment — videodromes, concert halls, theatres, anything rather than sit at home in the derisive silence.

But such fear binds the fearer and the goal is never achieved as the fearer abuses what is found today to create the tomorrow that does not exist. It becomes an illusory dream that always evades the fearer while holding him or her tightly in its tyranny.

The miniature was a picture of Leo's Greek mother - a lovely, dark-eyed creature.

Many household products contain antibacterials.