I wouldn't be able stop laughing my ass off from Taylor's savage firing towards mueller if I was at this trial oh mylorde.
Over the next four decades the man who would become Britain's most infamous prisoner would carry out a series of bizarre and savage acts towards prison staff and fellow inmates.
It hints at that old cliche about the noble savage being pushed towards a civilisation that will destroy him.
I admire the control and simplicity of the structure and the lyrical freedom of the writing, and the taut plotting, so that what seems to be fairly random actually drives the book straight towards the savage conclusion, which with its inevitable bloody end is like a Greek tragedy.
But then, in the final moments, as the game headed towards its savage and definitive conclusion, the home fans burst into the loudest song of the night: "Leicester, champions!" They are no longer the kings, but they took to the role of kingmakers rather well.
But for all her tomboy tendencies, Polly Harvey's songs derive their savage energy from a conflicted attitude towards masculinity: a mad jumble of envy, admiration, rage, resentment and above all, an awareness of the ludicrousness of machismo's blustery posturing.
This soldier's suspicion was conveyed as certainty to Soldiers "A", "B", "C", and "D", who were ordered into positions to intercept Savage, McCann, and Farrell as they walked north towards the Spanish border.
In the savage wind at the top, we pause to admire horizons stretching towards infinity before plunging into the unknown.
