Who wants to be a millionaire?

The number of words I’ve written cannot be precisely determined, as my writings have included not just articles and news, but also conference agendas, adverts and other marketing materials – and even menus. It would take an archivist many months if not years to compile all that still exists of my entire output. But a significant percentage of it has long since been pulped – and this is something I will ponder on the next time I buy recycled toilet paper: does this roll contain traces of the invitation I wrote for a gala back in 2014? I’m sure many poets, playwrights and philosophers down the centuries have also wondered about the same thing while out toilet roll shopping. Many of my other compositions that were published online are also no longer with us, as the web pages they appeared on have since been deleted or the data that encoded them has simply degraded over time. If only we still inscribed letters onto clay tablets that were later used as construction m