The shadow of the Wind

"Television, my dear Daniel is the Antichrist and I can assure you that after only three or four generations people will no longer even know how to fart on their own.

Humans will return to living in caves, to medieval savagery and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say - it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that " Carlos Ruiz Zafon