Eulogies: #4

If you took a long drive, especially in the country, especially toward dusk, think if you were flying fast down rural routes with cornfields to either side of you instead of charging down an interstate, it used to be that moths and other bugs would be crushed against your windshield all the way through, hundreds of them, thousands, so by the time you got to where you were going, they'd be smeared all over it, you'd need to clean the glass to get a clear view of the road again.

I never loved this gruesome annihilation of insects, but it was better than this, how you can take the same drive now and have maybe two or three smudges on your windshield because there aren't enough insects left in the air to be annihilated.