Yet there is also that element of entertainment—of wonder at the almost sensual pain during the cut, at the speed with which the crimson pearls rise to the surface, at the moment one waits in breathless anticipation to see whether, when the blood does come, it will be in the form of a thin, red line, or will it actually spill out in droplets, and then still more wonder at how the wound rushes and weeps, suddenly impatient,
