The statistics relating to the geo‐social nature of the Universe, for instance, are deftly set out between pages nine hundred and thirty‐eight thousand and twenty-four and nine hundred and thirty‐eigh...The statistics relating to the geo‐social nature of the Universe, for instance, are deftly set out between pages nine hundred and thirty‐eight thousand and twenty-four and nine hundred and thirty‐eight thousand and twenty‐six; and the simplistic style in which they are written is partly explained by the fact that the editors, having to meet a publishing deadline, copied the information off the back of a packet of breakfast cereal, hastily embroidering it with a few footnotes in order to avoid p…
