For two days and nights, since rumors first stole across the bridge with whispers of 500 rebel Arsiyah put to death in the yard of the Qomr, the fugitive partners had been trapped by riot and counterriot with 15 whores, male and female, among them Hanukkah’s beloved Sarah; the procuress Celestial Hind, supposedly a bastard half-sister of the kagan; a cat; a weasel; and an ill-tempered macaque called Fortunatus, a name that delighted Amram, being “Zelikman” put into Latin.

To fill in her time she wrote a three-act play which was produced at the Arts Theatre. It did not set the Thames on fire. Of course, she admitted, "it was my fault for not writing an audience-proof play. […]

Freud has brilliantly led the 'popular' thinker to the core of his scandalous assertion that, beyond even the displaced idea of normal/abnormal, he is prepared to undo the child/adult division and with it the idea of childhood innocence and the Christianocentric idea of a corrupting fall into adult sexual knowledge which surrounds the advent of adult sexuality with its moralizing shame.

"You have given me things to think on. I have never thought about the Creator in this way [....]