No ivy ever gripped a tree so fastIt's easy to get ahead in this world. It's easy, because other people are stupid. Everybody is running around doing whatever they always wanted to do but didn't dare to do before, or the thing they think is the right thing to do, that will get them out of some eternal traffic jam, and to the head of the line when the world ends.
as when that horrifying monster clasped
and intertwined the other's limbs with its.Then just as if their substance was warm wax,
they stuck together and they mixed their colors,
so neither seemed what he had been before;--Dante Inferno
It's a much better idea to just look out for oneself, and cover ones options. There's no reason for the world to end at some arbitrary number, but there's all sorts of stuff to do while everyone's running around like a chicken with it's head cut off.
It's just stupid to sulk in a corner, or to sit on your little pile of winnings obsessing about which of all the preoccupied people in this city will take it. It sure won't be me. There's easier ways to have a good time. I'm all for the simple pleasures. This lollipop, it's really good, cherry, my favorite. I bet that sulky kid misses it, but too bad, he was careless.
I must say, that priest next door, is having quite a get together. I just don't see the point of alcohol, though. He'll have such an awful hangover, tomorrow.