2003-03-11 - 12:53 p.m.
Today's Quote for Those Days When I Have Nothing Else to Write About comes from the late Frank Zappa's autobiography:
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice--there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. When you compute the length of time between The Event and The Nostalgia For The Event, the span seems to be about a year less in each cycle. Eventually within the next quarter of a century, the nostalgia cycles will be so close together that people will not be able to take a step without being nostalgic for the one they just took. At that point, everything stops. Death by Nostalgia.
And to think that a small army of French academics and two continents full of university semiotics and cultural-studies departments have taken five decades and a million-trillion-bubkizillion pages of black-hole-dense prose to say exactly the same thing.
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