Bjork's musical dalliance with German punk noisenik Alec Empire has long been a point of contention for fans, many of whom resent the way he generally suffocates his source material with a giant cloud of distortion.

A short drive down to a resort on the south coast and a chat with a woman who has had a Merwolf encounter. That'll be a new one for me. Merwolves... Amphibians, obviously. I’ve heard they have razor sharp teeth.

Part of the difficulty with this task, as we have seen, is that there may be no ready demarcators of gender divisions, or, if there are such demarcators, they may not be made along lines that are susceptible of analysis in Eurocentric terms.

The main —— or cooking —— kitchen is an inhumanly immaculate expanse of burner rings and countertops where, according to tradition, the stations move clockwise from canapé to entremetier.