‘Why don’t you ask me what I know if that’s that important?’ He dared her. ‘Go on, ask me.’
‘Maybe I will.’
‘Why not now?’
‘Because…’ She grinned in defeat. ‘Because I don’t want to know.’ Her hand went to her lap. Black Pat made his ear tall in protest.
Esther had a question. ‘So wait, if neither of us finds it funny, why do you make jokes?’
His eyebrow buds hitched, the connoisseur. ‘Because we need the laughs.’
[Rebecca Hunt Mr Chartwell]
mrówkodzik 
It gave me a moment of sober melancholy, the quote, that is… And then, a feeling I’ve been around something similar, like dejavu almost. Yeah, there you go:
„The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied … Look at me: I design coastlines… I’d far rather be happy than right any day.”
„And are you?”
„No, that’s where it all falls down, of course.”
„Pity, it sounded like quite a good lifestyle otherwise.”
[Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, just before Earth gets destroyed ]
opcja z zagładą ziemi to jest jednak opcja pocieszająca. potrafię sobie wyobrazić gorszy rozwój wydarzeń. ba, tu nie ma sobie czego wyobrażać.
dokładnie … tam było szybko, szast prast i nie ma… bohaterowie się dowiedzieli na chwilę przed, i ich zabrali [jako jedynych, lecz w książce to szczegół] … a tutaj proces się toczy powoli… cóż, obserwacja uczestnicząca, na razie można mieć nawet fatalistyczny, lecz jednak dystans