But all that was so long ago,

think of the pressure on all these people,

the metarhythmics of..........circumstance

And besides, the wench is.........

..............turning it in her fingers,

......so's he can see it sparkling, his head bent close to hers, little bit of linearity now, heh, it's the next day......

Linearity only one among many constructional functions. Wha? Tale I told you, walking shadows. In any case, what can he possibly mean by the metarhythmics of circumstance, or even, "metarhythmics of circumstance," which of course means something quite different. You have got to accept, oh yes you bloody have, got to accept a marked reluctance to tell the tale. Look, I'm writing in English english, for heaven's sake, it's a much subtler medium than American english...