Sublime

This wry comment on how little most of us were likely to accomplish in life, no matter how long we lived, isn’t my own invention.

"The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody," she said, "would be to not be used for anything by anybody."

desiderata.

People jumped out of windows. They peed in their pants. “There were all kinds of collisions between different kinds of vehicles,” wrote Kilgore Trout. No sooner had the judge restored order, though, than a huge crack opened in the floor of the Pacific Ocean.

Somewhere in there was an awful scene,

Billy answered. There was a drunk on the other end. Billy could almost smell his breath—mustard gas and roses.

It went like this:

The discovery of the chrono-synclastic infundibula said to mankind in effect: “What makes you think you’re going anywhere?”