that importunate word from our spontaneity,
I think that it is due time to get back to our story.
We've all been waiting for this bus long enough!

I hope you will excuse me if I import a bit of my local color
and project it on your local situation -- what is the spatial
analogue of &quot;anachronism&quot;? -- since I do not know all of your
public holidays, nor even whether the ones we are likely to
share in common are celebrated on precisely the same dates.

But if I had been on a residential street here,