Or words to that effect

Did you do that? Did you do that again? Did you do that a third time? Did you repeatedly do that? Did you ' having known how I felt in myself ' go straight ahead and do that? Did you ' despite what I have said about doing that ' do that?

Boats push off to scan the coast and check each gormless buoy. In cagouls and wellies, they trawl the beach for boulder-headed wackos, only finding Reebok Classics, an empty box of Japanese detergent and a bendy-wendy ruler. They lope across acres of rutted earth to test the dreaming cabbage.

When we mop floors, all sorts of complex emotions occur: what has our life become and why do things move in circles and this moment pretty much sums it up, this pretty much says it all.

They should not have been so surprised to hear a clank or two and feel a loosening from the crematorium's basement. He sunk through the floor like an old Wurlitzer, is how she phrased it over a glass of Punt E Mes.

What about Jack walking down by the river, picking some daffs, finding the body and ending up in the central reservation or somewhere equivalent with his whole life in tatters?