And if you were bom on those tricky days which fall between two signs — like 23 December, or 21 May — then you are called a 'cusper', ...

Policemen are forever being modest, jargonistic, officialese.

In other words, the musicians immerse us in the soundworlds of their instruments.

At the back of her neck, the real smell of her hair came out from under the chemical scents of the processes it was subjected to in that be-curtained shop below my office […]