Jean-Luke’s Reviews > A Single Man > Status Update

At the table next to him, two other unhypnotized nonconformists, an elderly couple who belong to the last handful of surviving colonists, are practising their way of love...You old bag, you old prick, you old bitch...rage without resentment, abuse without venom. This is how it will be for them, till the end. Let’s hope they will never be parted, but die in the same hour of the same night, in their beer-stained bed.

“Hardly more than a month ago [...] they were cramming the markets, buying the shelves bare of beans, rice and other foodstuffs, utterly useless, most of them, for air-raid-shelter-cookery because they can’t be prepared without pints of water. Well, the shoppers were spared - this time. [...] they never knew what didn’t hit them. No doubt, because of that panic buying, they have less money now for gifts.”