It was a cold autumn day with a cloudless, hazy sky and a yellow sun that no longer gave off any heat, the kind you can look at directly without hurting your eyes.

This may be difficult to comprehend during the happy and hazy days of courtship, but it’s true, and it shocks many couples during their first years of marriage.

I saw him through a haze of, drugs, pain and the dreamy unreality that this could be happening to me.

Ayer was dimly known to me, England being one of those rare countries in which each era has a few public philosophers — respected thinkers who are called upon to comment on the issues of the day.

I jumped up and washed and hurried on my clothes, but in a hazy and half awake condition.