Chapter twentyHave you ever slipped on a banana skin? Have you ever tobogganed down an icy slope out of control? Have you ever been kicked up the back end by a fractious mule? Have you ever lost the path and fought your way back through thick snow-covered bushes? Have you ever walked in the dark slap bang into an unlighted lamp-post? Experiences of that order, multiplied by googol values, tried to tear me into little pieces. By Zair! I tell you, that was a whole lifetime of diabolical experiences crammed into a few hectic moments I wouldn’t like to have to do every morning before breakfast! Completely disorientated, half-blind, the sound of Niagara in my ears, feeling pains as though my insides were being torn out and plastered all over my outsides, I arrived wherever it was the witch La