“No SurprisesA heart that’s full up like a landfill,a job that slowly kills you,bruises that won’t heal.You look so tired-unhappy,bring down the government,they don’t, they don’t speak for us.I’ll take a quiet life,a handshake of carbon monoxide,with no alarms and no surprises,no alarms and no surprises,no alarms and no surprises,Silent silence.This is my final fit,my final bellyache,with no alarms and no surprises,no alarms and no surprises,no alarms and no surprises please.Such a pretty houseand such a pretty garden.No alarms and no surprises,no alarms and no surprises,no alarms and no surprises please.”

“So much alarmed that she is quite alarming”

“Was it possible that Ranulph, too, was a real person, a person inside whose mind things happened? He had thought that he himself was the only real person in a field of human flowers. For Master Nathaniel that was a moment of surprise, triumph, tenderness, alarm.”

“I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.”

“He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.”

“My jerk alarm's been tripped!”

“There is no alarm clock like embarassment.”