"England no longer existed. He'd got that--somehow he'd got it.
He tried again. America, he thought, has gone. He couldn't grasp
it. He decided to start smaller again. New York has gone. No reaction.
He'd never seriously believed it existed anyway. The dollar, he
thought, has sunk for ever. Slight tremor there. Every Bogart movie
has been wiped, he said to himself, and that gave him a nasty knock.
McDonald's, he thought. There is no longer any such thing as a McDonald's
hamburger. He passed out. When he came round a second later he found
he was sobbing for his mother."
-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy"
