The Ultimate Inferior Beings (40 page)

actually: 236

again: 221

alone: 35

am: 265

an: 12, 81, 173, 179

and: 37, 100, 124, 175, 201,
209, 235, 249, 268

another: 206

anyone: 49

at: 18, 33

back: 20

be: 120

became: 245

because: 38

being: 178

book: 27, 112, 197

bore: 105

boring: 207

bother: 211

bound: 121

but: 65, 141, 222

change: 96

changed: 139, 150

constituent: 98

contained: 114, 232

cry: 239

day: 76

dear: 259

decided: 84

did: 135, 143

didn’t: 210

done: 190

dreadful: 23

dull: 24

entries: 154

even: 126

ever: 31

everyone: 184

few: 29

for: 240, 263

full: 73, 130

gave: 50

general: 254

get: 90

had: 80, 189

happy: 248, 276

hardly: 48

have: 270

highly: 25

however: 182

I: 261, 264

idea: 82

in: 72, 129, 145, 253

index: 9, 16, 43, 52, 71, 79,
134, 170, 180, 188, 200, 208, 219, 231, 244, 267

insignificant: 26

intelligent: 226

is: 181, 257

it: 10, 83, 104, 115, 128,
138, 142, 149, 214

its: 97, 153, 238

itself: 91, 140

just: 136, 271

know: 171, 262

let: 34, 163

life: 177, 252

little: 8, 42, 70, 78, 106,
133, 169, 218, 243

look: 59

looked: 32

made: 155, 216, 272

me: 273

might: 58

moment’s: 54

more: 225

never: 67

no: 108, 204

not: 183, 205

notice: 123

noticed: 93, 185, 228

numbers: 101

occasion: 56

of: 15, 21, 39, 195

oh: 203

once: 1

one: 75

only: 87

or: 63, 107

ordinary: 13

people: 30, 118, 165

perhaps: 125

pleased: 250

read: 36, 68, 127, 167, 213,
237

reader: 260

readers: 194, 227

really: 92, 192

relation: 109

sad: 220

saw: 198

so: 102, 131, 144, 151

some: 22

sort: 14

special: 147

story: 158, 160, 234, 256

stuck: 17

stupid: 193

sympathy: 241

take: 122

that: 28, 85, 103, 113, 116,
137, 152, 161, 229, 266

the: 19, 41, 51, 69, 77, 86,
111, 132, 164, 168, 187, 191, 196, 199, 217, 224, 230, 242

then: 74

there: 5

they: 57, 66

this: 40, 215, 255

thought: 55, 202

time: 4

to: 89, 95, 110, 212

true: 258

two: 64

unhappy: 47, 174

unrewarding: 176

up: 60, 156

upon: 2

very: 45-46, 246-247, 274-275

was: 6, 11, 44, 94

way: 88, 117, 148

what: 172, 186

when: 223

who: 166

with: 251

word: 62

words: 99

would: 119, 162

you: 269

For further information,
please visit the TUIB website: http://tuib.webnode.com

Acknowledgements

As I had nothing to do with
the writing of this book, I would like to thank Roman Laskowski for kindly
putting my name on the front cover. I think it was a great idea as I am much
better looking than he is.

Roman, in turn, would like to
express his gratitude to Marek Piekarski for the fun collaboration during the
early drafts of the book, and for some of his great ideas. Also, thanks to
Edith, Veronica and Sam for their patience during the rewriting process.
Immense thanks to people who helped, particularly Terry ‘Weekend in Weighton’
Murphy for his meticulous reading of the text and fantastic suggestions, and
Gareth Naylor for his help with the cover and trailer, and for his
ever-ludicrous but hilarious ideas.

Mark Roman, 2012

About the Author

Mark Roman has been working his way
through the alphabet in search of a suitable career. He’s sampled architecture,
accountancy, auditing and astrophysics. For a while he worked as a computer
programmer before realizing he’d skipped over ‘B’. So he took up
bioinformatics, which is where he is now. He worries that becoming an author
would put him back to ‘A’, with the whole alphabet still stretching out ahead
of him.

He lives in London with his wife (also a
scientist) and two young children, neither of whom wants to become a scientist.
In his work he has published around 80 papers, reviews and book chapters –
although, if you want to read them, you’ll need to look under a different name.

As a lifelong soccer fan he is no
stranger to the extreme emotions of elation and despair (but mainly despair –
in fact, almost entirely despair), particularly from his own performances on
the football field. Still, he firmly believes there’s no problem that can’t be
solved by a nice cup of tea. Except, perhaps, the global economic crisis.

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