and i know what it's worth to tug at the seas and illumine the earth

[cimorene]

when he was at boarding school his best friend was called smith. smith used to amuse himself, and moon, by making indecent phone calls from public kiosks. one of his victims cunningly pretended interest in some obscene suggestion and asked for the caller's name, and smith blurted out, 'my name is brown.' there was a nuance in that which moon had tried to pin down for years.

-tom stoppard, lord malquist and mr moon