Remember, the great work of art always has to lose to the heartwarming money pile: Network, one of the ten best movies ever made, lost to Rocky, which went on to birth Rockys 2, 3, 4, and 5, and the inescapable reign of stumpy cockmonger Stallone for the next two decades.

The Grand Canal, in Chinese Yun-ho, or ‘the Transit river,’ is of much more importance to the inland trade than either of the two great rivers of China.

The former is a good idea but the latter is not.

Carr added that he had never seen "another who provoked so much mirth, and who entered into rollicking fun with such glee. He could make a cat laugh.”