This week, as I moved slowly through my gray and isolated world - divorce, no matter how clear and correct a decision, is still a difficult one - I decided to give in to my friends' enthusiasm, to try to venture out, just once, just for one evening.
Then, instead of being confused because I'm playing four games at once, just the one game will be enough to bewilder me.
"Vertigo," for example, describes a watchmaker's shop "in which a host of long-case clocks, wall-mounted regulators, kitchen and living room clocks, alarm clocks, pocket and wristwatches were all ticking at once, just as if one clock on its own could not destroy enough time".
So for them, the abuse they receive below the article they have written is not experienced in isolation: each snarky comment, each spiteful tweet, is (as Zoe Quinn once put it) just one snowflake in an avalanche.
So, Taggar tells us that the team made that one of the key features of its new app — NFC Writer — to let users program multiple tags at once, rather than just one at a time.
Where we once had one, just one, disaster housing program that worked mostly as it was supposed to, now we have a new housing program for each disaster.
Before you resize and resave a bunch of files at once, try this procedure on just one contact photo first to see if it fixes the problem.
A work that contained all those episodes, Aristotle argued, would be "too extensive and impossible to grasp all at once"; instead, Homer cannily focusses on just one episode from the tenth and final year of the war, and emphasizes a single theme.
