He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.

The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with and ology tacked on the end.

It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.

What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a mountain, must have developed a magic kata, a physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees.

He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.

The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop

This is your brain on magic.