Tithonus, reaching for immortality, achieves only a struldbruggian kind of existence; and Ulysses in his infinite search for knowledge sets out with his mariners on that final voyage that leads them only deathward.

“It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?”

The restore would get through between 13 and 20 gigs of data, and then the tape would fail.

Then the cakeists really go to town. The judges decide on the winning couple which, as the band thunderously earns some more of its money, are presented with the cake and dance with it around the hall.