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"I think Labour certainly deserve a go at it now. I wish there was a third party that could get involved. I've forgotten their name. The Liberal Green something or other," he says mischievously.

Jane Lancaster: I came across a reference to Lillian Gilbreth getting a gold medal for something or other.

In the following stream-of-consciousness sections, this, that and the next thing flew by, peppered by something or other in the orchestra.

"You can expect to be caught out somewhere for something or other you have overlooked," he says.

In the ensuing six decades of elaboration, retconning and world-building, he has become the man who conceived the Avengers, Marvel’s answer to D.C.’s Justice League; that pack of superheroes are currently off-world doing … something or other … which leaves “Secret Invasion,” its alien characters notwithstanding, refreshingly life-sized.