“... suddenly sprung alive from a collector’s case, stopped briefly and then kneeled and leaned forward to kiss the red Cuban soil – only to smack the tarmac instead. (This gesture proved to be some sort of near-miss-cum-hubris for, you see, the runway had recently been covered with a Russian blacktop.) Though it didn’t really all begin then, but a few ...”

“... nightly in cinema queues? What, indeed? ‘Aren’t we going to be told who everyone is?’ said Susan, looking around the room and smiling. Effects like these have little in common with the ways of Swann or the beaches of Balbec; let alone celluloid derivatives. Lastly, and in many ways most significantly for reception at large, there is a difference of ...”