Happiness is a warm gun

One of the reasons John Lennon's "Happiness is a Warm Gun" works is the juxtaposition against Charles Schultz's "Happiness is a warm puppy." The other reasons is that we are a gun-crazy culture, but I'll deal with that in a later blog. Puppies are soft and cuddly and always warm. Guns are only warm when they have recently been fired. Sort of like the difference between a book and a Kindle. Amazon recently introduced a new, updated version of the kindle, but it's still solid and hard and you can't cuddle up to it. Even if reading from a screen doesn't give you an Excedrin headache, it seems awkward. You can hold a book in a wing chair, curled up on a corner of a couch, on the beach. Books are made to be comfortable with. I can't see someone comfortable with a kindle. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I think it will be a long time before books printed on dead trees are totally replaced by books on a kindle. Because happiness is warm and cuddly.