Gentlemen don’t earn money. Gentlemen, as a matter of fact, don’t do anything. - Ford Madox Ford

It was probably indecent to think of a corpse as impotent. But he was, very likely. That would be why his wife had taken up with the prize-fighter Red Evans Williams of Castell Goch.

For love is like a journey in mountainous country, up through the clouds, and down into the shadows to an unknown destination.

It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is dreadful is that the world goes on and people go on being stupidly cruel - in the old ways and all the time.