Or perhaps he does, if he has learned to surf the waves of space-time, believes Larry Silverberg, an engineering professor at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

Fisher’s insights have left me intrigued as I attend my niece’s fifth birthday party while Rob decides – on the spur of the moment – to head north for a spot of fishing.

In Lavengro (or is it Romany Rye?) there is an impossible character, a victim of insomnia, who finds that a volume of Wordsworth's poems is the only sure soporific; but that was Borrow s malice.