Most of his shorter novels are too bizarre to do him justice, although they have paragraphs of dazzling originality – his science-fiction anti-vivisection novel Morwyn (1937), which contains much abstract debate about the nature of sadism, also provides arresting descriptions of the behaviour of his dog that justify the whole crazy enterprise.

His notions of sexual satisfaction centred around masturbation, voyeurism and fondling. He liked girls to sit on his knee, and he also got sexual satisfaction from reciting poetry at them. The comic aspect of this was apparent to him, and it bothered him not at all. There is a grandeur in his indifference to the norm. His appetite for food was as unusual as his appetite for sex: he became, nominally, a vegetarian, but eschewed most vegetables, surviving for years, he claimed, on a diet of eggs, bread and milk, with occasional treats of guava jelly. This gave him severe gastric trouble, and he had to endure a painful form of surgery that he labels “gasterenterostomy”. In his later years, he depended for bowel function entirely on enemas, a procedure of which he highly approved, as it facilitated meditation.

Rock bands shouldn’t be fronted by a guy who looks like he’s covered in moss.

The hope may be that other scientists, and the rest of us who don’t care about 248-dimensional objects, may profit from this math, but there’s no guarantee.

There was one glorious moment when I got one of the robots to say she “Shot a man in Reno, just to see him die,” but aside from that, it was a miserable experience.

As in any good story, the characters developed over time. Eventually, Lamar and Koenig got divorced – Koenig got custody of the majority of internal organs, and later went on to become a pan-dimensional being. The Infomage, on the other hand, set up a successful data exchange business with his dataside alter ego, Image. A major event was the marriage of Goblin the tea-boy and Unidentified Girl in Pigtails, or UPiG.

Player-character Groove Champion is mixed up in all this highway warfare by sheer chance.

This yellow ruffled sponge is home to many small brittle stars at the Davidson Seamount.

Twin Peaks escaped the Empty Cup Awards in its original run, but takeout coffee culture has expanded dramatically in the years since. What does Twin Peaks’ relationship with coffee look like in 2017?

“I thought that people didn’t like the same stuff that I did, but as it turns out, other people do,” he said. “So we made a little community just by doing that.”