The enforced global 'anthropause' during part of 2020 was also a reminder of the importance of timing: we have become used to having the things we need.

Please pick up the baby's pootie and put it back in his mouth.

The neighborhood, to our ears, seemed haunted by approaching footsteps; and what between the dead body of the captain on the parlor floor, and the thought of that detestable blind beggar hovering near at hand, and ready to return, there were moments when, as the saying goes, I jumped in my skin for terror.

Sigmund Freud has replaced Darwin and/or Hegel as the household deity of sterilization.