Though her early work consisted largely of poems about ghosts and, later, teenage angst, she began writing plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.

When a young British couple, who make jigsaw puzzles, are hired by an ageing Norwegian to take nude photos of themselves in a sculpture park in Oslo, they are drawn into a web of occult Nazi horror. Even more horrifying will be the fate of the whole world some years later if alien visitors achieve their secret aims.

Illustrated by William Pene du Bois. Two teen-age boys go on a three day rocket trip to the moon.

Others – the romance that kinda-sorta blossoms between Mila Kunis as a cleaning lady who learns she’s the queen of the universe and Channing Tatum as the flying half-man/half-dog who protects her – are inherently ridiculous but also seem to be aiming for an awkward sweetness.

Vomiting profusely is exhausting.

He does this by taking her to a Canadian mountain and using magic to awaken her inner charisma.

One review particularly struck me: it was of an early Beatles LP, and it read (I quote from memory) “the jazz content of this record appears to be nil.”

You MUST be fat and fleshy, pink in color resembling pork belly (Caucasian), have a positive attitude with zero whining, a quiet collaborator with no opinions unless asked, great work ethic.

Given that God is a real presence in this cosmos, it’s striking how rubbish everything is.

It was early along in my Stronghold reign, after I had won me a couple of world Max Shoot-Outs and had established myself as the current Greatest Man, that I began to think again of other things; I began to think of … aspects … Purpose … Beauty … Community Interest…