II. Where to Build 35 Five Thirty-minute Sessions 36 Had and Held 38 i. Last Night 38 ii. Self-Storage 39 iii. The Ring 40 iv. Last Home 41 The Pollyanna Principle 42 Leavers’ Balls 43 Old Flat, Abandoned 44 Hundreds of Little Lanterns 45 Vilnius Nocturne 46 One-Parent Families (Sheldon Press, 1979) 47 Like Father 48 Epithalamium: Postscript and Prolepsis 50 Losers; Winners 52 Defences 54 Childe Behar’s Intended Pilgrimage 56 They Still Leap Over the Strid 57 Garlic 58 i. Wimbledon Men’s Final, 1994 58 ii. It Might Repeat on You 59 Nottingham Nocturne 60 Acknowledgements 62