The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.

Byford said that the COVID-19 pandemic had exposed a reckless, ultimately over-reliance on the farebox.

I'll be awake all night finishing all the work I had to bring home. That is so fucked!

absolute objectists, who made the subjective perception dependent on the real existence of the object