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So does it do shifts on both jobs-working in the heart by day, standing in for the nose at night? Or is it more of a supervisor, dashing between the two to ensure that everything's running smoothly?

Isn't the septum the piece of muscular tissue that divides the two chambers of the heart? If it is, then I would be worried if it had been attached to your skull in the first place! Martin: I have seen Unbreakable-are you a bona-fide superhero then?

I have just read this book within the course of a single day (revision periods between exams are so very dull), having been drawn to it by the several cryptic quotations taken from it found in Deus Ex (a PC game, for those who are unaware.) What can I say? Bizarre, surreal and absolutely...

Did they endless stream of lacklustre, overpriced expansion packs not inure you to the charms of the Sims long ago? It did with me.

Have you played Broken Sword 3 yet? I thought that it had a great plot, that it was a valiant attempt to ressurect the genre, but the puzzles were too easy and relied too heavily on THOSE DAMN BLOCK-PUSHING SEQUENCES! ARRRRGGGHHHH!!! Litany: Buy the MI bumper pack, it's only £15 and it has...

That it did, twas great!

Only night, as the only illumination I know is the harsh glare of my CRT monitor anyway! Seriously, it would be night anyway, because there is nothing more beautiful than the stars on a clear night, away from civilization and light pollution. QUESTION: Western comics or Japanese comics...

No-one has yet mentioned the good old LucasArts adventure games, I am willing to let this oversight pass, accepting it as simply due to your uncontrollable rage directed towards the corporation for their cancellation of Sam and Max 2, but I shall nonetheless address this lack. Grim Fandango is...

Have you read the Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu? It's the book widely reputed to have been the first novel ever written, about the life of the 'shining prince.' It's a thoroughly interesting read from the perspective of understanding Japanese feudal life, but be prepared for 800 or so pages...

I hate it when authors destroy the mystery of a chapter with complete give-away chapter titles, especially if it's at a major event or twist, but otherwise I like them, especially the little cryptic clues that are sometimes given, which rather than spoiling the suspense, as an unsubtle heading...

Not a terrorist thriller in the slightest, but your raising the issues of natural disaster and, more specifically, disease, reminded me of Albert Camus' The Plague, about a small Arabian town that suffers from an epidemic of the bubonic plague, and how the different residents of the town cope...

Oooh yes, I've broken my wrist twice (once playing football, the other time in a rugby match) and fractured my leg once (jumping down some stairs). I get lesser injuries all the time-during the rugby season my mum's always worried that if a teacher sees me they'll contact social services due to...

Sorry, but no. My head's in the stars, so my dreams cannot let them fall! ;) And I would pose the question, "Do you believe in anything outside the purely corporeal dimension?"

Isaac Asimov J.R.R. Tolkien Fyodor Dostoevsky Auldous Huxley Robin Hobb Terry Pratchett Hayao Miyazaki There are, naturally, many, many more, but that will do as a quick list. I resisted the urge to add Douglas Adams as H2G2 is simply far better-suited to its original home, the radio...

Oliver Twist, the only Dickens book that I have read, is written very well, and in many places most amusing, showcasing his black humour and love of irony, but the plot is simply dire! It seems to consist of an endless sequence of an adult being mean to Oliver, Oliver crying, Dickens going on at...

W.B. Yeats, W.E. Henley (purely for Invictus), John Milton, William Blake, Robert Frost, Lewis Carroll, Alfred, Lord Tennyson and John Keats, to name but a few. Up until fairly recently I abhorred poetry (primarily due to repeated exposure to the dire anthologies selected for school study...

No, not really, though the main reason for that is probably because I'm not good enough with a camera. That, and I lack a model. ;)

Your avatar rocks! Sam and Max is quite possibly the funniest game in existence, though Monkey Island's up there too. Of course, Grim Fandango just pips them both in terms of overall atmosphere and quality, but Max...Max is the most suited to an avatar. As for DeviantArt, it's a good place...

It's a good point, they do sound very much like a song.

I don't read all that much fantasy-wise, I feel somewhat intimidated by the vast hordes of titles on offer, especially knowing that so much of them are formulaic and unimaginative at the best of times, so I tend to stick to only the most renowned authors. However I absolutely adore Tolkien, and...