Many books relate how, in 1852, the five major TCC Classics turn up in a salt store in Wu Yang County, Henan, where Yang’s student, Wu Cheng-qing, happens to be the local magistrate.]

I think he left the phone off the hook so that nobody would call him.

‘…I suppose it’s a bit like Snickers always being Marathon in my eyes. In about ten years only old people like me will remember it.’ ’No!’ he protested. ‘It’ll never die. In the minds of right-thinking people it’ll always be Marathon. For goodness’ sake, Snickers! Rhymes with knickers, you don’t want to eat something that does that, do you?’

It is an ideology that breeds despair, and, thus, perhaps the only solution one might find is to LDAR – or, failing that, seek retributionary violence.