This was written for a celebratory book of contributions — or festerspiel — presented to Raymond and Karen Zacharia on the evening before their marriage in Scarsdale, NY in June 1993. This accounts for the [by Danny’s standards] rather eulogistic tone: however, the details of Raymond’s Oxonian career of frustrated depravity are substantially accurate. For the literary jumping-off point, cf. Samuel Johnson’s The Vanity of Human Wishes (DJ).