People often resort to the philosophy “I do X … oh, and I also sometimes dabble a bit with Y,” as the philosophy “I do X*Y,” where * denotes something of the nature of an integral convolution, has not been in favor since the Renaissance.

Al MacKinnon taught psychology for 20 years at the University College of the Cariboo before being “outed” by the vigilant PC movement. He now starves and writes bad verse in a lakeside cabin in the interior of British Columbia.

A murder with a single victim is magnitude 0 (since 10^0 = 1). 

Things were invented near Uppsala, Sweden and spread mainly westward all the way to Greenland (about 1000 CE).

The result of the coiling of John’s soul round the soul of Athling as he walked by his side along this hot dusty path, towards Cardiff Villa, was that he realised that nothing could conceivably ever make Athling understand the mystical ecstasy of destruction and the deep metaphysical malice with which he longed to undermine the Grail Legend.

Preston’s curious addiction to Pepsi-Cola is never clearly explained. The novel starts with him bulk buying the stuff and fantasising about drinking 300 cans a day. He drinks it for comfort and for energy. Sometimes though he uses it as a substitute for living: At fourteen years old wherever he turned, he somehow failed to develop any sense of adventure and remained statically serene with the drink he called the “high life”.

Usually, on the grounds of existing grey relations, grey elements, grey numbers (denoted by ⊗) one can identify which Grey System is, where “grey” means poor, incomplete, uncertain, etc.

The serious gains start with stacking and blending. Hold on to your top-hats and petticoats: Here be dragons.

Once identified, toxic memes can be divested of their attractive and pleasing capsules and adornments and be relegated to the pool of irrational memes that can be a source of amusement rather than threat.