The first item, about bicycles ruining marriages (and to a lesser extend some other items), sheds some light onto Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman. I didn't

The first item, about bicycles ruining marriages (and to a lesser extend some other items), sheds some light onto Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman. I didn't anticipate people would talk about bicycles ruining families seriously, thought it had been written just as a bizarre thing for a bizarre world, 100% invented, and now, it turns out, it's not 100% invented.