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His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night- and then as a mausoleum. During the night- too- hed somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad.Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full of things he could happily do without: the tedious and ridiculous Professor Welch- a neurotic and unstable girlfriend- Margaret- burnt sheets- medieval recorder music and over-enthusiastic students. If he can just deliver a lecture on Merrie England- a moderately successful career surely awaits him. But without luck- life is never simple . . ....