He wants to give you two million dollars? That's just too good to be true!

We always, it seems, are provided with a glut of material on the next big thing and not enough on how to make the last big thing actually work.

Thus there are 3751 lexical items covered in total. Taking into account polysemy, there are 4315 separate senses. Of these, 1021 terms are proper nouns. Thus 23.7% of the lexis covered consists of encyclopaedic material.

From that evening on—Christ, her father was a Nobel laureate and dead to boot—I could not look in the mirror without seeing a hamster […] Her billions diminutized me. I was a kept man. A gigolo. A rodent.