Unless there be some lesion of the stomach, there is no blood, either microscopic or occult.

It is so easy to fool the reader with the pseudo realistic and the pseudo analytical.

There is a station here, of course, opened as Didcot in June 1844 and renamed as the more grandiose-sounding Didcot Parkway in July 1985.

'They're mindless – even the best of them! – all bullying, no intelligence, no moral profluence, ergo no real history!'