[…]so that it would be possible for a young lady of this present day to perform a melody in all respects similar to that which her beringletted and scantily-attired sisters of the time of Moses are playing and singing, as depicted on some of the paintings on plaster removed from the Theban tombs, and preserved in the British Museum.

Later, on the motorway, a car with go-faster stripes and spoilers overtakes us, horn blaring.

peri- + apocalyptic → peri-apocalyptic

these solacers of his weary hours