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.

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.

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