"Then 'twas through one bedroom after another, and each one more crowded with noisy, smashable things than that previous.

In the lone novel of his career, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the goading Lord Henry cannot seem to help himself from delivering bon mot after bon mot. Word-play and paradoxical summation was a compulsion for [Oscar] Wilde.

The calculated answer was astronomically large.

In its ongoing efforts to nail the bad guys, the US Department of Homeland Security is investing heavily in the sniff test: odourprint.