That old saw about a problem shared being a problem halved? Damnable lie. A problem shared is a problem doubled. - Ian McDonald

He had sworn on his father's honour, his mother's life, his brother's masculinity, his sister's purity and his prophet's beard that he would never set foot there again. God, knowing people, thinks little of honour or purity or even life, but vows made on his prophet he loves to confound.

The freefall sex? Grossly oversold. Everything moves in all the wrong ways. Things get away from you. You have to strap everything down to get purchase. It’s more like mutual bondage.

These songs were the true names of things, spoken by the soul, so easily buried under the little busynesses of everyman everyday.