“But nowadays everybody’s a comedian, even the weather girls and continuity announcers. We laugh at everything. Not intelligently anymore, not with sudden shock, astonishment, or revelation, just relentlessly and meaninglessly. No more rain showers in the desert, just mud and drizzle everywhere, occasionally illuminated by the flash of paparazzi.”
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt.
As I sit here drinking tea (not made by the Nutrimatic drink dispenser), I’m reading the prologue of this last book by the Douglas Adams.
