XXX/4 The cartoon format is reverted to (cf. Canto XXII/l) for the almost slapstick dialogue between Sinon and Master Adam the vulgarity of which is such that Virgil reproaches Dante for listening to it. Abuse has to be teased out of Mallock's text, but it can be found. The odd emphasis provided by the capital letters was gained by the use of the publisher's catalogue at the end of A Human Document. `Suboroff is the name of one of their authors, though in this context it seems to have a different sort of meaning -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.