For the late novelist P. D. James, author of, among other things,
The Children of Men .

Michael Caine in the film of that book —

Detail —

Raven's Progressive Matrices example —

 A quote for tellers of tales —

“There have long been rumors of a mythical Ninth Element
that grants ultimate power to the Wizard who masters it.
The Order of Magick says there is no such thing. But….”

— Website of Magicka: The Ninth Element Novel