Status Updates From Laughing Whitefish

“…I re-
flected that there were people in the world who went through
life exuding gloom and dire foreboding; who were filled with
dreadful prophecies and mournful cosmic intuitions; who de-
rived their greatest joy from contemplating pain and sorrow. To
them the best news was bad news…”

“Were we not helpless slaves to chance and
irrelevant circumstances? But who was to tell in life what pre-
cisely was or was not relevant?”

“…people always keep saying if you don't drink you'll live
longer, but they're dead wrong -it only seems longer.”