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Eliot notwithstanding, to this prescriptivist curmudgeon, 'Febuary is the 'cruellest month'.

Well, whatever the cruelest month is to the poets, this is sure to go down as a particularly cruel summer weather-wise. We need some stronger words, ones that go well beyond sultry and stifling.

Hadean?

Good one. It even comes complete with some fire imagery, for those of us close to Canada.

Up there in the Styx?

Oh, and . . . thanks for Charon! Ferry thoughtful!

Now I know how Ben de Hellenbaque feels!