Here is an exercise in Freudian slips that will pang with the child in all of us who have at some stage in youth called their teacher ÔmumÕ. Here too are exercises in assumption, in self-conflict and non-verbal miscommunication with the society external to oneÕs body, in misinterpretation, in the impossibility of effective communication in polarised debate, and in the potential of lies. They touch on the fantastic and the everyday.