Re: What is your outlook?

Description: Trillin is optimistic about his own life, but says the world will have to worry about itself.

Question: Are you generally optimistic or pessimistic about the way they world is headed?

Transcript: I’m pessimistic about whether the plumber is gonna come; but optimistic, I think, in general. I’m not sure it has to do about the world, though. I think it has to do with things are gonna probably be okay . . . but it’s sort of personal. It has to do with my family and things, not to . . . not . . . I don’t really think usually in terms of the whole world. They’ll have to worry about themselves.

Question: How will this age be remembered?

Transcript: That . . . Well for instance, at the beginning of that age there were no airplanes. The airplane was invented, what, in 1910 or ’11? Or when did the Wright Brothers or . . . whoever did it. So I don’t know what an age is. Certainly in America, I think there . . . material goods sort of dominate this era, or at least this period right now. It’s hard for me to think in more than a, say, decade

Recorded on: 9/5/07

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