Dating from 1996, 'Maximum Omega', the aphoristic sequel to 'Omega Maxims' which puns the word 'maxims', probably does more justice to Truth, or metaphysical knowledge, than any of John O'Loughlin's works prior to this date, with the possible exception of its immediate forerunner. In fact, here at last, with this collection of some 575 maxims, is what could be called the author's magnum omega, bringing to completion, in this particular genre, his quest for philosophical perfection through what is arguably the most ideologically-advanced and logically-rigorous philosophy ever constructed by a self-taught philosopher whose foundations were literary.