illustration in this book for children / old miserable boxmaker / let’s call him Fishface / see little ones there below yon picture we read / Fishface consults his prophecy / standing / haggard old bird / paper close up front of beaky grime-nose / eyes screwed up / pile of boxes / some tools on a table / bare attic room / yep thats somekinda ragged cap upon his head / shabby ol robe engulfs him / red yellow black / toned in grey / prophecy between his legs his fingers devised to reveal himself a glorious rightful prophet / common knowledge had it same prophet neither welcome nor heeded in own land / such repudiation being how he felt he had reasoned himself obviously destined for such a thankless profession / especially now that the hand crafted boxes he made had been undercut by the machine moulded plastic container / he was now otherwise completely useless to his fellow men / bastards / prophet doomed to become / what made him hesitate from actually declaring himself a prophet was that somehow he could never quite remember how his admonition went / nor when he read it whether it could not perhaps be more conclusive / the end is nigh / an amended prophecy would be written out without in effect making the slightest difference to his hesitation / some ol rubbish indecisive about salvation an doom / salvation doomed / doom saved