Sometimes, again, as I plunge still deeper into the fascinating volume, a poem seems to fashion itself and leap from the burning page. Listen.

She hears not Park appealing

Nor Gerrard's wail of woe,

Her heart is on to Ealing

89200;

For there her true love (smartest

Of lcl plmbrs) speaks;

For him our switch-board artist

Puts powder on her cheeks.

For him, the brave, the witty,