One year later, the abyss seems to get wider

The San Francisco Chronicle ^ | September 6, 2002 | Rob Morse

[lainie]

"The telephone rang much too early in the morning. You didn't know it then. You didn't know you were pausing in infinity, standing over an abyss with one foot in the fast-disappearing past, the other about to make contact with the slimy, slippery, treacherous future."

[gcruse]

Rubbish? I don't think so. There is something
unseemly about the superpower weeping her way to
closure. Too PC to feel anger, we substitute
mourning for resolution, searching old ladies
for fear of offending the likely.

[PoorMuttly]

Welcome to the club, Rob.

The "world" hasn't changed...you're just noticing more now that you've been slapped by it...by what was always there...and you were ignoring while you watched t.v.