“Bookstores employ a very special class of condescending nerd. These are the types of people who used to work in video stores before they went under.”
“Where were they before that?”
“Record stores, obviously. It’s been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, John, America will be inundated with a wandering snarky underclass of unemployable purveyors of useless and arcane esoterica.”
“I’m not sure I understand.”
“No. Well, you wouldn’t.”