"The day after tomorrow, this will all be over." Such a fucking cliche.

Sure, our road trip would be ending soon enough, and we would be returning to our miserable, monotonous, minimum-wage jobs that regularly take us to the very brink of sanity... but to pretend that everything we just experienced would be concluded as soon as we return to home port strikes me as truly false.

The thing that he seems to miss is the continuity of events which develops out of the dynamic relationship between what we do and otherwise experience, and the way we see our fundamental world. Tommy has a much simpler perspective on things, and sees his life, and time itself, as a linear storybook. Of course, this only creates conflict between us when I am in one of my particularly professorial moods, and apparently this is one of them.

Indeed, we are all rapidly approaching the very date when our "immortal souls" will be jettisoned into the flat, flat universe, and the only reason to care about this is that tomorrow, my miserable, monotonous piece of shit of a job won't be so sad.