But Van Vuuren and Boshier have made it according to the very value system they satirise.
Its efforts to damage the opposition have instead taken down the very value of this country.
It is a bizarre cultural digestion in which the artifacts left behind by a social ill have, by their very value, yielded another social ill.
And it is a true "reader's novel", in the sense that its narrative reinforces the very value of reading and study.
As Pope Benedict points out in his recent encyclical, there are religious ideologies that completely deny the very value of development.
Paradoxically, this is the very value most at risk in a time of war, when dissenting voices are marginalized or banned from the political arena altogether.
The very word denotes surface, outward appearance, an assumed bearing or, as in the expression "to lose face," our very value or standing in other people's eyes.
However, in sanctioning this expansion, UEFA threatens not just the life of the Group of the Death, but the very value of the European Championships.
One former prosecutor said that for all the inevitable trauma that can come from close questioning about one's sex life, the hearing on Wednesday also underscored the very value of the laws that protect rape victims.
Sean Sullivan, a security analyst at F-Secure, said: "Smart cities can provide planning departments a lot of very value information for better city living – but it could also be a big vector for fraud unless properly secured.
For that matter, the very value of artistic imagination and originality, along with the primacy of the individual, is increasingly being questioned in our copy-mad, postmodern digital world.
