Doodlers have various tendencies and preferences and motivations, but all doodlers know the marvellous, mind-dusting reverie of doodling, which also happens to offer a respite from other trending modes of content creation.
It gets us close to one of the most marvellous minds that ever existed.
A marvellous idea indeed.
Winning one grand slam is a marvellous achievement, never mind three, and you have to look at that rather than compare the eras".
He now claims, with characteristic boldness, to have developed the only biological theory that explains how the marvellous phenomenon of the mind somehow emerges from the enigmatic three-pound mass of tissue known as the brain.
They produced, among other things, thousands of original, meticulous drawings — of lepidocyclina tournoveri, cristellaria latifrons, and so forth — whose marvellous forms summon to mind oysters, pinecones, and life on the planet Mongo.
For instance, last year EMI issued a copyright claim insisting that YouTube take down the video of Newport State of Mind, the marvellous pastiche of Jay-Z and Alicia Keys's insufferably bombastic expression of civic pride, Empire State of Mind.
And, at some leafy point along the way, I will no doubt remember once again the encounter with the lady in black, which has become mythic in my mind: that marvellous old woman, laughing, laughing, laughing.
Gareth Edwards, in his 1978 autobiography, when describing John, wrote: "He had this marvellous easiness in the mind, reducing problems to their simplest form, backing his own talent all the time.
