Or existed, anyway, until last summer, when a number in a column marked "burglaries" that usually contains the digits 0 or 1 suddenly climbed to 7.
Apparently, when speaking back in January about his life in Liverpool, Marouane Fellaini said: "I was recognised too much and sometimes women would suddenly climb all over me".
But vacancies are also suddenly climbing in Houston and Dallas, which had been shielded from the economic downturn until recently by skyrocketing oil prices and expanding energy businesses.
His white count went up for a while, but early in October it dropped again, to 3,600; then, in ten days, it suddenly climbed above normal, to 8,800; and it finally settled at 5,800.
Soon I understood his tone, because we were suddenly climbing it, the Hill — not exactly running anymore but stumbling in place at a serious tilt, the earth an angled treadmill underneath us.
And yet I suppose it was an exciting notion – the perfectibility – that we would suddenly climb out of the mess of ourselves and live in the clear air of our own lovely thinking.
Surely you've heard of Bitcoin, the digital virtual currency beloved of speculators and online drug dealers that suddenly climbed to a rate of $260 per bitcoin last week before crashing again, and then rallying again?
When Mr. Yerofeyev was prosecuted for fomenting ethnic and religious hatred by staging an exhibit that scandalized the Russian Orthodox Church, members of Voina infiltrated the courtroom with electric guitars and an amplifier and suddenly climbed up on the benches to perform a punk-rock song called "All Cops Are Bastards".
With the stock market as a whole, however, it becomes impossible to ascribe a huge premium to business assets, unless you make unrealistic assumptions about how much the stock of intangible capital has suddenly climbed in relation to the stock of physical capital.
