"No". The dark-haired girl shakes her head.
It is no longer the Dark Continent in continual economic free fall, wallowing in debt, poverty and disease.
This means that – as one mortgage broker put it – they are no longer "the dark sheep of the mortgage family".
His picture still hangs at the White Horse, no longer the dark longshoreman's bar of Thomas's day, or with the Bob Dylan-filled jukebox of mine.
"They aren't as expensive as they used to be," he says, adding that they are no longer "the dark sheep of the mortgage family".
"They aren't as expensive as they used to be," he says, adding that they are no longer "the dark sheep of the mortgage family".
There is nothing "loving and gentle" out there and there never was, no light, no flight, no sunbeam through a cloud, no glimmer in the dark, no dreams, and no promises.
But the country no longer inhabits the "dark side" of torture and rampant renditions.
"It is exciting because we are no longer in the dark ages about diarrhoea," she said.
Thanks to organisations like Frank, set up by the goverment, our youth is no longer in the dark about drugs.
There's no escaping the dark comedy of that incident, and Taylor often relished it in the retelling.
