Those were the “hyphens,” the passageways that connected the wings of the mansion to its center.

Martin was pretty dull as names went but 'Alex Blake' had a certain dash to it. His publishers hadn't considered Martin's own name to be 'punchy' enough. The pseudonym Alex Blake was chosen after much deliberation, most of which excluded Martin. 'A strong, no-nonsense sort of name', his editor said, 'to compensate'. For what, she didn't say.

7 THEOREM The closure of any set is the union of the set and the set of its accumulation points.

The leaks by Chelsea Manning showed the secrets of the US military.