Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe. Treatle: I hadn't looked at it like that, but you're absolutely right. He's really pushed back the boundaries of ignorance. They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.

Cake is not the issue here.

Words are the litmus paper of the mind.

I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such.

I try to make computers say things like You have 60 seconds to achieve safe distance.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

What can the harvest hope for...