Rastas have developed a speech and language culture out of the conventional English language. It is in fact a deliberate bastardization of the language of the oppressor, as a mark of protest against him; a psychological means of feeling free from bondage.

If she's so terrific and powerful and all, said the predictable second voice, why can't she make the kittening part grow back, and do something really useful with herself?

I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,

The slender sculpture's beauty was enhanced by its apparent fragileness.