“All is burning. All is crashing. All is well . . . and then we finish with a huge explosion-and that’s even better-getting even calmer . . . even less to worry about . . . because once you’ve run out of things to break, right? That’s when you drop one hundred adult elephants on the repair teams. That’s when you’re in that optimum relaxation zone: all is destroyed, there’s no hope of fixing anything, you can just take a break-nothing left to do, y’know? Nothing left to be undone, you see? Doesn’t that half-burst elephant look like a big wrinkly bean bag? Sure it does. Now, all that’s left to do is to take all of the credit. That’s right. I am the Great Causer of Things. Feels good to let everybody know who’s in charge of leaving nothing anyone will ever be able to take charge of ever again . . . yeah . . .”
