@prof_brandt posted in Port Vesper Local: “My delivery of the Saturday papers came with the wrong supplement again, and I spent a quarter hour trying to recall th…”

My delivery of the Saturday papers came with the wrong supplement again, and I spent a quarter hour trying to recall the word for a small wooden bolt on a gate, and it would not come. Failing words at seven in the morning is a peculiar humiliation; one never sees it coming.