Let go of my arm, or I will scream for God." "He never helped you. Have you forgotten? - Mervyn Peake

His face wore the resigned expression of one who knew that the only difference between one day and the next lies in the pages of a calendar.

When Uncle Jake
Became a snake
He never found it out;
And so as no one mentions it
One sees him still about.

How merciful a thing is man’s ignorance of his immediate future! What a ghastly, paralysing thing it would have been if all those present could have known what was about to happen within a matter of seconds!