"I know," she said. "But I just sort of got to thinking of them, all
 of them, all over everywhere, doing it all the time. At least, I mean--
 getting married, you know. And it's--well, it's sort of such a big thing
 to do, it makes you feel queer. You think of them, all of them, all doing
 it just like it wasn't anything. And how does anybody know what's
 going to happen next?"

				-- girl
				   Dorothy Parker's 'Here We Are' (1931)