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Meanwhile, global warming is accelerating the melting of glaciers which can fill up the lakes to bursting point.

In his introduction to the collection, Jonathan Dee, a novelist and one of So’s mentors at Syracuse University, where the younger writer earned his MFA, aptly remarks that “every sentence seems at its observational bursting point.”

On Tuesday, Pip Griffin, a senior warden in the Worcestershire area, told the committee dog pounds were at bursting point with abandoned animals, meaning imports should not be needed.

“We stood in the sun for hours, many of the elderly with ankle, legs and knees swollen to almost the bursting point,” Ruth Hooper, an American teenager who was interned by the Japanese in Manila, wrote in one.

The result was an international fixture between England and South Africa, squeezed into a calendar at bursting point, felt almost like a non-event - a feeling that will only get worse if too many future �������t¶�� are without England's biggest stars.