It is some years since I have been alone, nameless, friendless, without any of the safety one gets from family, friends, and accomplices. There is no reality in the danger. It's just a very lonely, helpless feeling at first – a kind of desolate feeling. Which statement describes the solution to the problem in the passage from Travels with Charley?
I took one companion on my journey – an old French gentleman poodle known as Charley.
Because it was a wind strange to me, and therefore mysterious, it set up mysterious responses in me.
For myself, I try to keep the line open even for things I can't understand or explain, but it is difficult in this frightened time.
Just as I felt unwanted in this land, so do I feel a reluctance in writing about it.

Skill check questions rearrange the paragraphs below into the correct sequence. that's because engineers on the ultraclean project have invented a self-cleaning, antibacterial metal surface that repels water with an intricate layer of laser-engraved valleys. when it rains, the lotus does not become damp; the water simply trickles off in fat droplets, taking any bugs and dirt with it. the drudgery may not be around much longer, however, if a team of italian scientists has anything to do with it “it's simply an amazing plant,” concluded professor luca romoli, leader of the project, “and we've succeeded in mimicking it. magnifico! ” few tasks in life hold less joy than scrubbing the ghost of somebody else’s porridge from a saucepan. the starting point for the research was the leaves of the lotus flower.

Which best expresses the irony present in this passage?

Apply the ideas of the plain language movement to make the paragraph under "before" in section i more user-friendly.