If I remember, it was a lengthy disquisition: So thick in fact that the flimsy pamphlet-binding had began to fray (this was in the age before the staple became a staple). I remember reading about an Etruscan king who climbed a hill and descended into a fugue.

I also remember that it ends abruptly with some notes on pond-fowl, an actress from the silent-film era, an airship-disaster or some other topic of apparantly of no relevance to Etruscans, Oaths, Deities or Kings.

Is it a mere coincidence that Pebblehead’s latest paperback shares the same narrative sloppiness as Dobson’s long out of print pamphlet? Or is Mr. Pebblehead a plagiarist?