These games are marvelous," Amanda said. "I like them especially because they are so meaningless and boring, and trivial. These qualities, once regar… - Donald Barthelme

People who had, in the past, suffered from technophobia suffered even more. Others took other positions. Things were not so bad. Things could be worse. Worse things could be imagined. Worse things had been endured and triumphed over, in the past. This was not the worst. The worst was yet to come.

No man's plenum, Mr. Quistgaard, is impervious to the awl of God's will.

I obey the Commandments, the sensible ones. Where they don’t know what they’re talking about I ignore them. I keep thinking about the story of the two old women in church listening to the priest discoursing on the dynamics of the married state. At the end of the sermon one turns to the other and says, “I wish I knew as little about it as he does.”