“The party was beginning to get noisy—not boisterous, but noisy. It was beginning to acquire that stale air of futility to which, in the end, all parties must fall victim.”

—  Clifford D. Simak, book Time is the Simplest Thing

Source: Time is the Simplest Thing (1961), Chapter 5 (p. 26)

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