He offers the never-never land of convenient cliches. a world where statesmen say, "We've not heard the end of this," where people turn "scarlet with anger," where the price of gold goes "sky-high" and where the unsuspecting outsider "little knew what fate had in store for him.
Muffled lives explode in understatements.
Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.