‘Listen, no one will touch it. You can’t sustain a story, you know, when the only news is the continuing absence of whatever it is the story’s about. Not our territory anyway, try the Sundays. Maybe they’ll run a little “Whatever Happened to ‘Whatever Happened to the Dolphins’” story in a couple of years, around August. But what’s anybody going to do now? “Dolphins Still Gone”? “Continuing Dolphin Absence”? “Dolphins – Further Days Without Them”? The story dies, Arthur. It lies down and kicks its little feet in the air and presently goes to the great golden spike in the sky, my old fruitbat.’
