“‘It should be automatic.’
‘Instantaneous.’
‘Every day a world-clearing sort of revolution, a bloodless one, one more interested in regeneration than any sort of destruction. Every day we start with a fresh world— or, better yet, each day we start with this world, the one we know, and by nine, ten a.m., we’ve destroyed it… Let’s say that everyday, every morning, millions of people, on cue, take the whole stupid thing apart, all the cities and towns, with hammers and saws and rocks and bulldozers and tanks— whatever. Shake the Etch-A-Sketch. We just converge on the buildings like ants, then wire the things and knock them down, knock everything down, every day, so the world, by noon or so, is flat again, wiped clean of buildings and bridges and towers.’”
-Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
“‘Everyone is talking. People have come with friends and are talking with the friends they’ve come with. They’re out with people from work. They are looking into the face they see everyday and are saying the things they’ve said a hundred times. Like us, they have in their hands beer that has been brewed on the premises.’
‘Should we order some food?’ we/they say.
‘I don’t know. Should we?’ we/they say.”
-Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
