The pain, the loneliness, the fear; Todd and Lowry surely speak for all graduates newly thrust into the hard 'real' world after three cosseted years in the city of perspiring dreams, when they talk of the disorientation, the panic, the very real Weltschmerz associated with these first steps of making one’s way in the world. How reassuring then it must be that in the shape of the Byron Society, there is a cistern of stability amid life’s watery flush, and that despite Danny’s frequent changes of hair colour (the man is such a slave to fashion — grey hair one day, pink the next) it nonetheless provides a sublime artistic point of reference for the happy few who can appreciate the thrill of having the piss taken out of them in rhyme (CH).