V2nd - chapter 11 - more examples - Step function vs snake

[Michael Bailey]

p337: "How wonderful is this St. Giles Fair called history! Her
rhythms pulse regular and sinusoidal - a freak show in caravan,
travelling over thosands of little hills.  A serpent hypnotic and
undulant, bearing on her back like infinitesimal fleas such huncback,
dwarves, prodigies, centaurs, poltergeists!  Two-headed, three-eyed,
hopelessly in love; satyrs with the skin of werewolves, werewolves
with the eyes of young girls and perhaps even an old man with a navel
of glass, through which can be seen goldfish nuzzling the coral
country of his guts.
"The date is of course 3 September 1939...."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/3/newsid_3493000/3493279.stm

St Giles Fair: ok, let me get this out of the way first...there's a
Robert Anton Wilson book wherein I once found the following limerick:
"From deep 'neath the crypt of St Giles'
Came a shriek that re-echoed for miles!
The vicar said, "Gracious,
it's Brother Ignatius -
He's forgotten the Bishop has piles!"

But seriously, St Giles fair is held annually in early September.
Worthy wikipedia (must give them some cash sometime --
but not before I pass a bit to our friends at WASTE...real soon now...honest),
handy quote:
During the 1930s, the poet John Betjeman described the fair as follows:

    It is about the biggest fair in England. The whole of St Giles'
and even Magdalen Street by Elliston and Cavell's right up to and
beyond the War Memorial, at the meeting of the Woodstock and Banbury
roads, is thick with freak shows, roundabouts, cake-walks, the whip,
and the witching waves.



-- 
"Three things in life are important. The first is to be kind.  The
second is to be kind.  And the third is to be kind." - Henry James