Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

... more recently, his friend Roscoe attempted to reconcile all the world with his Lokian trickery — she is drawing waves.

Why should I, you and your sicko trollbuddies Riddles and BingoTroll do such a good job jamming up alt.cats with lies on your own.

The supercontinent cycle has many effects that greatly affect other Earth systems. First, the breakup of continents causes sudden bursts of heat release, associated with periods of increased, intensive magmatism.