Some of the accused did not know Basil’s real identity; the others stuck by the old-school criminal’s 11th commandment, “Thou shalt not grass.”

Apartheid was a government-enforced form of separatism in which people received unequal social benefits based on race.

Age notwithstanding, none of these men seem interested in sailing to Byzantium anyway: Justine’s got them all on the last stage to someplace wilder and scarier, where Yeats’s “monuments of unaging intellect” are thoroughly beside the point.

As a white-bread suburbanite, I must admit, I was a little intimidated to trade out my wholesome Charlie Brown for a green-haired hollaback girl showing a mile of tattooed midriff.