It could therefore be argued that Hitchin – and Kwo, and Siratori – are only able to produce not only the kind of writing they specialise in, but also the volume of work that is, intentionally or otherwise, integral to their splatter-gun approach because of the technology available now.

A father tongue is a foreign language, therefore English is a foreign language not a mother tongue.

The social organization of the Trobriand Islanders of Melane- sia is characterized by matrilineal descent, free and familiar rela- tions between father and son, and a marked antagonism between maternal uncle and nephew.³¹ On the other hand, the patrilineal Cherkess of the Caucasus place the hostility between father and son, while the maternal uncle assists his nephew and gives him a horse when he marries.³²

He briefly rocked medical school, switchbladed to accounting and finally joked his first radio script in 1938.