After thirteen years in the city, London today only makes sense to me as a hot desk: a place I can pop into to make some quick money, and get the hell out before public transport reverts me to the angry man I never again want to be.
(I should know; as rights revert to me from publishers, I Kindle-publish my books myself, DRM-free).
The "Us" of courtship typically quickly reverts to "me" versus "you," a contest creating winners and losers.
The rights to my technothriller Invisible Armies finally reverted to me last month.
Please I will expect that you revert back to me as soon as you receive this mail.
And at one point I nearly lost this entire article when I deliberately deleted it and the program refused to let me revert to an earlier point.
"But I had to go back and say, 'God, if this is the pattern that you choose for me to find peace of mind, if this is what I need to go through to in order to do that, let me not make it about anybody else, but revert it back to me,'" Kearney told The American-Statesman.
Friends tell me to revert to the bar, and goodness knows it offers a better and safer livelihood.
This allowed me to revert to Windows 7. Of course, I was pestered by one of those "Are you sure?" messages which I cancelled.
In 1935, Anne McCormick wrote to Arthur Hays Sulzberger, "I hope you won't expect me to revert to 'woman's-point-of-view' stuff".
"We revert back to 'Just give me the ball, let me put my head down and go,' " D'Antoni said Monday, adding: "That's what we have to guard against.
