It's all in a day's work around here: "There were abstract equations to be worked out; difficult analyses to be made; mystical keys to be fitted to still more mystical complications; and the whole so blended and woven together, that the loss of a single link of the marvellous chain would destoy all hope of ever attaining the wished-for result." From Leonard Kip's "The Secret of Apollonius Septrio,"
Hannibal's Man and Other Tales, 1878.