“Your daughter has amnesia, sir,” he said, the honourific leaving a sour taste in his mouth.

The bathroom looked like a radiant sacristy, the sink a piscine, the drain a sacrarium.

But I would like to say to you that, while the 1970’s were very much the age of the me-too-ism, of I’ve got mine, of all of the conflicts in this country, and while the 1980’s are very much an era of great change in our society, with new technologies and new opportunities, the 1990’s will be the era of creativity.

He lost $1000 in one hand, and spent most of the night trying to win it back.