There were over a score of small gold beads, 2 gold scaraboids, gold crescents, pendants shaped like pomegranate buds, several gold rings, pins of gold-covered bronze.

Today, choosing a president seems to have more to do with sex, lies and videotape.

And now, this pitiless light, undiluted by elven love and judgment, burst through me like the arrows of the stars.

THE ‘CATCH NO BALL BUT WILL KEEP TRYING’ AWARD INCEPTION Only the incomparable Christopher Nolan, after reviving the superhero genre, could have had the cojones to convince a tightfisted big movie studio to greenlight a movie as ridiculously convoluted and richly layered as this.