Comedian and writer Barry Cryer recalls the story of the tap-dancing duck act in which every night a world-weary mallard performed on a cake tin - until one night when the duck just stood there cleaning its feathers.
"What happened?" said the theater manager. The duck's trainer shrugged: "The candle went out."
Verum audaces non gerunt indusia alba. - Ipsi dixit MCMLXXII
