Dating from 1996, 'Omega Maxims' is a further instalment of the aphoristic purism to which John O'Loughlin had last committed his pen with 'Maximum Occasions' (1994-5), and constitutes, with well over 1000 maxims, what we regard as one of the best, most elaborate works of its kind by him, with subjects ranging, as usual, right across his Element-conditioned spectra in the fourfold documentation of sensual and sensible antitheses.