With a Bang

There had been an unbelievable amount of talk about the weather, not to mention the end of the world and so on. The earth continued to turn round the sun, but only just, it seemed. Never before in all its history had the planet's atmosphere been so heavily matted with information about everything, so clotted with flashes and scoops and entreaties and jeremiads. The air and all its waves were sodden with chit-chat.

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