During the early 1970s however in a period of rapidly increasing house prices it came to appear unfavourable to buyers since it allowed the seller to ‘gazump’, that is to refuse to sign the formal contract unless the buyer would agree to an increased price.

Enter the Conjurer; it lightens and thunders […]

The difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.

In case you haven’t read it (though they say Everyone has), Blase’s claim to literary fame is A Dark Night of the Soul: a slim sordid tale about the jaunty escapades of a thirty-eight-year-old New York fop who flushes his brain in toiletfuls of whiskey,[…].