A week ago i saw a monkey in the street jump on a donkey and try to wank him off - the donkey brayed and kicked, the monkey's owner shouted, the monkey itself squealed - apart from two or three children who laughed, and me who found it very funny, no one paid any attention. When i described this to M Bellin, the secretary at the consulate, he told me of having seen an ostrich trying to rape a donkey. Max had himself wanked off the other day in a deserted section among some ruins and said it was very good.