They always sniped at each other in public. German snipers were a wishy-washy lot compared with Lester and his wife.

The characters do seem Rip Van Winkle-like, as they stumble upon and blink in amazement at very unsurprising things. “Wow! Instagram? Podcasts?” marvels Miranda at some of Carrie’s latest endeavors, as if these were edgy new enterprises.

Giddy and intoxicated as I was with such satiating draughts of pleasure, I still lay on the couch, supinely stretched out, in a delicious languor diffus'd over all my limbs

Enzymes, the catalysts of biological systems, are remarkable molecular devices that determine the pattern of chemical transformations.