The desperation to be, or feel, as close as possible to the Kaaba has forced buildings to become ever higher, ever more ridiculously tapered, so everyone can have a view, however notional, of the sacred centre.
But that is the given name of the inventor of Bitcoin, the digital currency that has gone from a nerd's delight in 2009 to something taken seriously by central bankers in 2013, and whose notional value passed $1,000 a "coin" in November.
Indeed, that notional heartbroken girl may care to know that in a further possible universe, "she and Zayn are happily married".
The anti-immigrant defenders of Europe, not the notional crowds of immigrants waiting to invade it, are the true threat to Europe.
He subsequently stabbed in the eye Roy Whiting, the killer of eight-year-old Sarah Payne, and was a couple of weeks ago given an indefinite sentence with a notional five-year minimum jail term to serve in addition to his whole-life sentence.
He killed that one off by stepping away from purely notional cuts pencilled in for the very end of the next parliament, for which he never had a developed plan.
The monument would stand on the most special part of the sculpted Canberra landscape designed by Walter Burley Griffin – the notional land axis linking Red Hill with Capital Hill, the site of today's parliament, then the original parliament and across the lake the war memorial and Mount Ainslie.
"Mine is a notional Labor seat so you expect some element of discontent with the government but they are also unhappy with Labor".
As ever, our champion will be the tipster who returns the best profit to notional level stakes of £1 at starting price on our nominated races, of which there will be three each day up until Friday.
But at the time of his stay at Bucca, Baghdadi's group was little-known, and he was a far less significant figure than the insurgency's notional leader, the merciless Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who came to represent the sum of all fears for many in Iraq, Europe and the US.
Grimsvotn's eruption was a purely notional one, part of a two-day drill involving 70 or so airlines and other operators, a dozen air-traffic control systems and a variety of other bodies.
