CHAPTER 9 A Homily “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” —H.P. Lovecraft “The human race has only one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.” —Mark Twain “You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.” —Frank Zappa “The planet is fine. The people are fucked.” —George Carlin