... happening in, will not become confused and angry in his efforts to get out. Beds should not be placed directly opposite doorways. One keeps indoors when the Nightmarchers are abroad. On certain nights these progressions of ghosts can […]

To tighten the wire, thread a stick through both loops of wire; by twisting the stick you will take up the slack in the wires, pulling them taut.

But we should hoot briefly and diplomatically (apologetically like a Jeevesian cough), not in a roar of self-righteous rage. – 22/01/2007, Modern Manners, The Times http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,641-2560365,00.html

But he had none of the assumed, servile, oriental abjectures that leads man to revile himself as a worthless worm of the dust