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If there is one immortal distinction Shorter can certainly claim, it’s that of being jazz’s all-time greatest aphorist.

Clive’s appreciations, in that book, ranged from the filmmaker Michael Mann to the Austrian aphorist Alfred Polgar, alongside damnations of his devils, including, controversially but persuasively, one on Walter Benjamin.

Certainly, the Australian aphorist James Guida seems at his very best when he writes long: “Nobody need leave their bathroom to taste the ‘big’ truths.

The only true aphorist of our time, I contend, is Dril.

If most aphorists are addicted to assertion, telling readers what is and is not, there is always the option of shunning the verb to be and its imperious rule.