When, early on, we enter a Saxon village whose inhabitants are moved to senseless rage, I wondered if the picture of a populace without memory, easily swayed to strong emotion, prey to beasts that may be imaginary, was a rebuke to modern life, and that he was actually writing about, say, the internet.
As we move from the senseless boxes that confine us to a more synergistic, curvy vision of cooperation among all of our social institutions, the Colleversity becomes a ColleverCity.
Having seen so much, it takes a pretty significant story to move me (such as the senseless shooting of a lesbian couple in Portland, Tex., earlier this year).
David Cameron has called Mr Reckless's defection - which follows a similar move earlier this month by MP Douglas Carswell - "senseless and counter-productive" because the Conservatives were the only party that could deliver an EU referendum.
Joe Romm, founding editor at ClimateProgress, wasn't at all impressed by AP's move, describing it as "one of the most pointless – if not most senseless" in the history of the AP Stylebook.
It's all fists and elbows to the gut and – his trademark move – the classic head-butt, guaranteed to knock anyone senseless.
The paralysis that has afflicted the government in Baghdad, the sectarian disputes across the country and the failure to move toward reconciliation were all predictable outcomes of the senseless rush to hold national elections and put the Constitution in place.
Best way to move forward is to end Sen Ds' undemocratic & senseless filibuster.
In all, eight characters were lost to the subplot: there were six actual victims, the murderer committed suicide, and one character moved to Florida, freaked out by all the senseless death.
Perhaps that humanization will move the conversation beyond victim blaming, towards a unified front against senseless violence.
