MEN AT WORK, a Short Story by Graham Greene

Richard Skate, a middle-aged civil servant, inspects his countryside home after a bombing raid and finds it mostly intact. He lives a life of constant struggle, balancing his job at the Ministry with family responsibilities and dreams of being a playwright. His work at the Ministry involves navigating bureaucratic complexities and dealing with mundane tasks, yet he finds a sense of happiness in his permanent job. Despite the war's challenges, Skate maintains .............

[@peterchaloner2877]

That pamphlet in Welsh so impressed Stalin that he cancelled his decision to invade the Isle of Man.

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Meek narration in many spots where irony and cynicism are meant by the author.

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That's the problem with AI. Humans understand when irony, sarcasm or cynicism are implied. I suppose they'll have to make a whole new type of exclamation marks before AI can handle that.