certainly there are more useful views of this situation but today i feel like telling you...

"I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilisation careening toward a succesion of anticlimaxes - toward an infinity of unsatisfying and disagreeable endings. The wholly anticlimatic, unsatisfying, and disagreeable news that the Rev. Lewis Merrill was my father - not to mention the death of Owen Meany - is just one example of the condition of universal disappointment."
John Irving - A prayer for Owen Meany