Blood: A red substance believed to be capable of supporting life but which in a theatrical drama invariably indicates death. - Peter Greenaway

The large body of the swan wedged in the shattered glass of the car windscreen fills the film frame. Its head is bent back on itself in a parody of its orthodox gracefulness.

Galba... a miserable sort of man... bisexual... fancied mature slaves, especially if they had been a little mutilated... all his freed men had no fingers on the left hands... he's dead -- died screaming... in a cellar.

Smut is a target for reconstructed cricketing accidents -- he is the Cricket Saint Sebastian.