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

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

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.