Status Updates From De Effingers

'Kerensky's government has been overthrown and the Bolsheviks have come to power.'

'This taste for luxury is a real danger. Who still bothers to put money aside? Everyone's living beyond their means and thinks it's important to own all sorts of junk.'

'Black Friday at the Berlin stock exchange claimed a man's life yesterday.'

'... those armchair socialists had warned of the deepening misery of the working class and its slide into barbarism... and it struck him that the dominant world view was dreadful, this belief in the triumph of the best and fittest in the fight for survival; in reality, it was only the triumph of the strongest and most ruthless.'

'... she had fallen ill because she hadn't dared go to the toilet. She was never left alone, and she could not bring herself to tell a man, even a man who was now her husband, that she required just a few minutes alone.'