I usually haven’t done enough drugs that early in the day to really “get” the Zippy comic strip, but one the other day struck me as trenchant. Zippy is talking to a building shaped like a fish.

Zippy: Nothing bad can ever happen in my neighborhood.

Fish: Hey

Zippy: I live in th’ greatest neighborhood in th’ world!

Fish: Right

Zippy: Bad things happen in other neighborhoods..

Fish: Uh-huh

Zippy: If I’m so safe, why do I have this feeling of imminent annihilation?

Fish: Can’t imagine.

Now, I like that. But I liked it better before I started typing it in because I thought the last line was: “If I’m so safe, why do I have this feeling of immediate alienation?”

Safety and alienation go together like guns and fear.

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