So it goes: Charlie Brooker meets Kurt Vonnegut (and the ghost of Dylan Thomas)
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Leave it to Guardian columnist Charlie Brooker to have us sobbing into our chips, while contemplating the tricky nature of time (’The King of Things’) and channelling the ghost of Kurt ’so it goes’ Vonnegut and the Tralfamadorians.
So, yes, here’s a short quote from yet another one of his brilliant columns. Go and read it immediately after you’re done here:
“Still, it’s easy to picture a collapsing bridge. Picturing a collapsing environment is trickier. Hollywood has tried its best, but all I learned from sitting through The Day After Tomorrow is that, contrary to my previous expectations, the end of the world might be boring.”
More excerpts from the Gospel according to C.B.:
- Time will outlive you, your offspring, your offspring’s robots and your offspring’s robots’ springs.
- Perhaps joggers have a few additional Tralfamadorian synapses; only by experimenting on their brains can we be sure.
- [T]he closest thing we have [to Tralfamadorian grey matter] is LSD, which must be pumped into the water supply as a matter of urgency.
So, perhaps, if we have worlds enough and time, we could pump LSD into a statistically significant sample of joggers and then experiment on their brains?
Though that might be a waste of LSD and a good experiment.
I’d rather go for another test group. It might not be good science (since the group is, despite its claim of the opposite, anything but representative) but I’d love to have LSD pumped into the chambers of the European parliament, the House of Lords, the Kremlin, the Knesset, the House & Senate and everywhere else where politicians gather to enrich themselves and fuck with us.
If I could see that happen during my life time I would not give one self-pitying squeak when that King of Things would come for me but go gentle (and grinning like mad) into that good night.
Bleh! That’s such a toss of terrible tripe - So, let’s end with this one:
(Yes, much much better…!)














