Then hadſt thou had an excellent head of haire. […] Excellent, it hangs like flax on a diſtaffe: & I hope to ſee a huſwife take thee between her legs, & ſpin it off.

I think very briefly of the late Cosgrove Watt. I think of the hypophalangial Grief-Therapist.

Mrs Watanabe, the market’s metaphor for Japan’s housewife yen speculators, has come back to life.

The time-blackened front door betrayed its unusedness by rusty bolt and reluctant hinges […]