“It’s a simple arsenous-monoxide nicotinal preparation, taken bronchially as an infumation.”

“I think you’ve taken a reasonably interesting idea and you’ve basically just completely overworked it. What started out as quite an interesting statement on our susceptibility to received ideas, has just turned into a rambling, vague, ill-thought-out piece of drivel, and you ought to end it now.” OH DEAR, THIS COULD ALSO DESCRIBE THE LATTER HALF OF STEPHEN FRY’S CAREER.