That horrible story just might make an indelible impression on the memory.

However, in 1998, the Argentinean-American physicist Juan Maldacena published a paper that shored up the idea that we live in a ‘holographic universe’ and set the world of physics alight.

A saddler refused to black the linen lining of a harness-collar, though he had been told to do so, because the colouring would bolter the horse.

Give me my express, I said, laying down the Winchester, and he handed it to me cocked.