First Among Sequels: Thursday Next Book 5 (The Thursday next series)

by Jasper Fforde

That’s the thing about hitting fifty. All your life you think the half-century is death’s adolescence, but actually it’s really not that bad, as long as you can remember where you left your specs.

I had come to realise over the years that anything created by mankind had error, mischief and bureaucratic officialdom hard-wired at inception,

although ‘sell’ in this context actually meant offering ‘brief custodianship between outlet and landfill’.

Many things happen solely because of the curious human foible of a preconceived notion altering the outcome.