Take, for example, Danielewski's debut, House of Leaves, a book that, to my mind, utterly exhausted and gloriously completed a particular kind of postmodernist fiction.
Final countdown: United and Barça in Europe Benfica 1 - 4 Manchester United Wembley, 29 May 1968 Ten years after the Munich disaster, Matt Busby's rebuilding of United was gloriously completed at Wembley.
A new benchmark suggested itself last week, when the gloriously complete skeleton of a tiny primate found in China was revealed to be 55 million years old, roughly eight million years older than any other such fossil found so far, according to an article in the journal Nature.
And while the brothers White provide some gloriously urgent sounds - with Tenderfoot bassist Marc Beatty completing the line-up - Hamilton is the real anti-hero of the piece.
Roark, played by Gary Cooper in the gloriously OTT film of the book, dynamites one of his own buildings after second-rate talents are brought in to complete it without him.
The use of gloriously touchy-feely local materials, plus a generous use of water ("In fountains," he liked to say, "silence sings") and colour, completes the picture.
When the competition was complete, Harper gloriously flipped his bat forward with two hands, the fans roared, and in that moment our ancient pastime felt fresh, engaged, connected.
And it is absolutely, gloriously, intensely, bizarrely, completely fascinating.
Ostensibly, One Man Mega Myth (until tomorrow) is a tribute to the stunt rider (complete with a gloriously daft toy-scale re-enactment of his Wembley stunt), but in fact it's about Helm's fractious relationship with a comedy industry "that knows fuck all".
Opening small with moody piano and sonic crackles, it soon morphs into a gloriously OTT synth-assisted affair complete with the kind of lyrics that only really make sense in the throes of a relationship crisis ("Reaching for the highs, the earth began to rise, someone tell me why I keep falling down").
And so this account would not be complete without one of his: a gloriously wintry dish of long-braised beef cheeks with prunes and anise… As the cheeks cook, they may become very dark in colour.
