“People go on about places like Starbucks being unpersonal and all that, but what if that’s what you want? I’d be lost, if JJ and people like that got their way, and there was nothing unpersonal in the world. I like to know that there are big places without windows where no one gives a shit. You need confidence to go into small places with regular customers, small bookshops and small music shops and small restaurants and cafés. I’m happiest in the Virgin Megastore and Borders and Starbucks and Pizza Express, where no one gives a shit, and no one knows who you are. My mum and dad are always going on about how soulless those places are, and I’m like, Der. That’s the point.” (>>)
Friday, June 13th, 2008 :: 3:23 PM
1) Josh »» June 13th, 2008 @ 6:58 pm
Yeah, but in a world without soul there would be no Marvin Gaye. No Marvin Gaye means a lower birth rate. In time there would be a shortage of essential workers and nobody to continue operating the machinery of society. Humanity would quickly devolve into a submagnon race of trogylidytes (sp?) who would use the divine gift of opposable thumbs only to maintain their grip on the bio-degradition of shabby Starbucks (Tm) cups which would replace tools in an effort to stay elevated beyond the faceless worker class in a world where non-people remember neither classes nor workers while affecting domicility in the self-help section of a megabookmart under the watchful eye of God’s only begotten son; Dr. Phil.
Is that really worth the confort not running into an ex in the coffee line? I think not.
Great book… actually the last new fiction book I read.
I don’t know, considering how badly I’ve fucked up previous relationships, it’d probably be worth it ;)
Now that explains everything.