"If we do not deal with the threat from this international outlaw and his barbaric regime, it may not erupt and engulf us this month or next, perhaps not even this year or the next, but it will at some point," he said.
No more Gary Keith and Ron in the next room, not even Michael Kay's mild little "There's a strike," to the sunlit-afternoon accompaniment of a lawnmower up the street; and so on now into winter.
"Knowing that I was not going to have children, with a body that I didn't know what it was going to do next, and not even cured, and my book rejected, I just wanted to get back home, which was Africa".
Some of the tunes will be heard for the first time in 80 years next Tuesday – not even the librarians have heard them yet – at the launch of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's film music festival, when they will be performed at a free pre-concert event by Ben Dawson, the CBSO's pianist.
Next does not even count a third of the goods that leave its warehouses as officially sold.
Understand that you will not wake up tomorrow or next month maybe not even ten years from now—and find that everything has changed.
