Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for April 21, 2023

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what's going to happen, probably as more people work longer & odder hours & more services become avail-able 24 hours a day, we'll see society begin to divide along the lines of temporal preference. man 1: i'm a morning person. man 2: i'm a night owl. gradually, inevitably, we'll mutate into two, distinct strains of human being vwip foont the daylight people, or eloi1, will live on the surface, frolicking in sunlit glades & working your basic nine-to-five. bowl haircuts for every-one! healthy skin tone masks a general air-headedness. noisy tie. no more pants. flip-flops. the night people, or morlocks2, will dwell underground in vast caverns & abandoned metro tun-nels, doing society's heavy lifting & most of the creative thinking. big gollumy eyes. dampish. and green. i'll-fitting tire-salesman-style outfit. coffee tremors. webbed fingers. it'll all work out surprisingly well, except when the morlocks get fed up with the elois' insistent sunny disposition and practice a little ritual cannibalism. man 1: mornin' fred! man 2: g'night you grinning drone-burger. 1. cf. "the time machine" by h.g. wells or the movie starring yvette mimieux in a short toga. 2 same.