The following refers to a counterargument against the existence of ley lines, but in the right hands it surely could be the seed of a novel: the story of a time when our era remains factually well known, but is entering a state of mythification nonetheless...

As knowledge in Britain of the indigenous, but recently extinct Woolworths chain of stores recedes from living memory, its reputation will undoubtedly shift from the mundane to the legendary. To aid the rapid rise of its legend, Matthew Parker produced this baffling pattern, based on the location of a dozen Woolworths stores centred on the Midlands...