On a street nearby, Janet Ebi shelled periwinkles picked from the murky swamps close to the compound where Jonathan grew up.
Neither are murky waters or increased nutrient levels when water runs off from farms.
Fair enough, after this murky business, that Piketty might want to distance himself from the everyday rough and tumble of real politics.
"It's a murky world, and something that photographers never really challenge – they are all worried about upsetting the apple cart".
Some online sources attribute this to the 1949 John Wayne film She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (what Wayne actually said in that film was "Never apologise, mister – it's a sign of weakness"), but its antecedents are murky.
The mushrooming of streaming and filesharing anime online, sometimes with fans providing the subtitles – "fansubbing" as it is known – is also resulting in TV channels being bypassed, though the legal status of doing this is murky.
"I've no interest in exploring my murky depths.
It's an obvious enough point, but it cannot be restated enough: "No one with any knowledge of the murky manoeuvres that carved what is now Iraq out of the defeated Ottoman Empire after the first world war," he writes, "could possibly have thought it a good idea to try, by force of arms, to turn that artificial, riven state into a beacon of democracy for the Middle East".
But corporal punishment in the home is legal in all 50 states, with murky caveats.
Such a character, both repellent and compelling, would help to illuminate some of the murky corners of this issue, which is one of fiction's great services to us all.
"The positive thing to have come out of this is that everyone is banding together," said Klaus Horst, a 56-year-old civil servant, as he watched from Dresden's Brühlsche terrace, where jugglers and street musicians carried on delivering their entertain as usual to the crowds of tourists enjoying ice cream and beer in the summer sunshine while down below the murky waters swirled past.
