Today we learn Paxil, Prozac and all those other drugs are pretty much worthless for non-psychotic people who suffer from normal vagaries of life. If the drug companies were culturally literate one would think they were deliberately trying to manufacture soma (Brave New World).

Speaking of words I tried again to read Cyril Connolly's Unquiet Grave and was defeated by the affected blowhard. Of course Hemingway pretended to like and understand that piece of utter madness.