Presumably it was to be taken as understood that he would be able to spend most of his time having ‘fun’, as he and his contemporaries would call it.

If the Duke repairs himself to the point where he can start feeding again, complex life will be history.

In 1734, in Scotland, a 23-year-old was falling apart.

King Lear would have killed it in Silicon Valley.

She seems to have reverted to an earlier, more ferretlike incarnation.

You spend your time listening to Bach, playing God at school and covertly working for your stepfather, a ruthless financial heavyweight.

Twin brothers, and doubles generally, must not appear unless we have been duly prepared for them.

Two coral lips were visible, ripe, fresh, and melting, and a Chin in whose dimples seemed to lurk a thousand Cupids.

His eye dwelt with insatiable avidity upon the beauteous Orb.

In fact everything is inconceivable to the human mind (if only because it exists) but not many people notice this.