19th December 2003, 8:13 AM
JRR Tolkein has been one to say "this is not a trilogy, but a single novel told in 3 parts".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)