“We talk in his room with its single bed, bumpily spread with a candlewick counterpane in a cosy shade of plum.”

“The official policy of Her Majesty's Government, however bumpily arrived at, was consistent, cautious, and almost shockingly cold-blooded.”

“They tend to end, bumpily or inspiredly, with ecstatic dancing, a song, an expressionistic poem, or a surreal dreamlike image.”