Why This Is Hell

Reading, writing, and catching a suntan through the window of a coffee shop.

( LXIII: Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974) )


( LXIV: Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction (1971) )

( LXV: Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976) )

( LXVI: Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, Or Lonesome No More! (1976) )

I've been trying to track this quote down for years - I'd thought it was Doctor Who or Douglas Adams, or both, in fact it was Slapstick

[A safety officer has looked at the mess and chaos in Bernard's lab, and shouted at him.]

"My brother said this to him, tapping his own forehead with his fingertips: 'If you think this laboratory is bad, you should see what it's like in here.'"