The ritual, which Rosenfeld has aptly described as very Buñuelesque in its religious overtones, is quite effective symbolically.

That Pen, which now writes blottingly, might be well made at first, and will write fairly again […]

I'd love to visit Paris, but I can't afford the airfare.

The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].