subjects flickered in and out of focus ; music , poetry , the new fashions in jewellery ( there was some kind of new filigree work that a goldsmith in tarchna had invented , or in cisra , they laid claim to it there too , but then , what tarchna did today , cisra always copied tomorrow ) , the work of the velx sculptors , poetry again ( that greek girl egerius had been mad about ) , the best way to cook hare , the sturgeon manius ' friend numa had served at the lupercalia .