Cleaners clear the floating waste at a fishing harbour in Huangqi Township of Lianjiang County, southeast China's Fujian Province, June 6, 2017. Local authorities have devoted efforts to regularly clear the floating garbage along the seashore.

They prick us and they pine us, and they pit us on the pinnywinkles for witches; …

, New York Review Books 2001, p.273: In adversity I wish for prosperity, and in prosperity I am afraid of adversity. What mediocrity may be found?

Even three years ago, the thought of spending two hours, let alone a whole day, without my mobile would have been anathema.