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Yuri Tulupenko has incited me to put another riddle to the list. This  
paragraph is from a famous novel, from which a marvelous film was  
done. Usually economists use metaphors taken from more "popular"  
fields in order to be easily understood by common people. Some  
writers seem to prefer the opposite way. 
 
In order to explain what "kipple" is, our (veiled) writer says: "Kipple  is  
useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last  
match or gum wrappers or yesterday's homeopape. When nobody is  
around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you go to bed leaving  
any kipple around your apartment, when you wake up the next morning  
there is twice as much of it. It always get more and more" ... "There is  
the First Law of Kipple", he said. "'Kipple drives out nonkipple'. Like  
Gresham's law about bad money. And in these apartments there's been  
nobody there to fight the kipple.  ...  It's a universal principle operating  
throughout the universe; the entire universe is moving towards a final  
state of total, absolute kippleization."  (Chapter Six,  p. 57). 
 
Good luck, searchers. Any comments are welcome, about Gresham's  
law, Entropy, Economics, and even on kipple.   
 
Manuel Santos 
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