You told me about your dream - a world where no-one ever had to worry about spilling again, where people were free from the tyranny of orthography, and how you'd first had the idea for the typographical replacement beam, which would ensure that all spillings everywhere in the whole word were always collect. You told me of the years of toil, the late nights, the false hypes and the disappointments, and of your near triumph, less than three weeks before.