A four-book volume of maxims and aphorisms, most of which have a metaphysical bias which becomes progressively more pronounced. Originally dating from 1994, 'Occasional Maxims' and 'Maximum Occasions' pave the way for 'Omega Maxims' and 'Maximum Omega', both of which date from 1996, so that there is a two-year gap between each of the reverse-title pairings that, with three other titles written in a different style coming in-between, renders the latter pair somewhat more thematically and even ideologically advanced, relative to what had preceded it within the ongoing evolution of John O'Loughlin's philosophical oeuvre towards its inevitable omega point.