How to be Good (Penguin Street Art)

by Nick Hornby

Sometimes we have to be judged by our one-offs.

‘Oh, it’s completely out of the blue, isn’t it? I mean, there’s been no sign of this, has there, because we’ve been so blissfully happy.

Links with apocalypse denial. Pretending everything is fine until it is too late and then bam, apocalypse/divorce

If this was a film, something would happen on the drive home, something that illustrated and illuminated the significance of the journey. I’d meet someone, or decide to become a different person, or get involved in a crime and maybe be abducted by the criminal, a nineteen-year-old with a drug habit and limited education who turns out to be both more intelligent and, indeed, more caring than me

Links with rash behaviour relating to apocalypse. Crime, riots, indulgence, nothing matters anymore