Alan Brien — English Novelist

Alan Brien was an English journalist best known for his novel Lenin. This took the form of a fictional diary charting Lenin's life from the death of his father to shortly before his own demise in 1924... (wikipedia)

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.
Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.
I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.