He is too good an actor to need that sort of tomfoolery: the effect will be far better if he is a credible mining camp elder-cum-publican.

And here's a solution to an age old tattoo problem. If your girlfriend's name, say, Suzie, is tattooed on your arm, and you break up with her, don't have the tattoo removed. Just have the tattoo reworked so it says, Fuck Suzie.

The reductionist tendencies and impulses of Jaynes's approach tend to turn history into a Procrustean Bed; the body is mangled to fit the theory.

A section will suddenly become a stage play, a comic-strip-style cartoon, a chat-show anecdote, or a lecture delivered in glorious style by Tilda Swinton in a shocking orange dress and a wig to match