Symbolically, here are endless eons of time that pass during which the apes live in eternal boredom - and cope with the struggle for survival.She misses, causing him to calmly respond:You""re losing your eye.You used to be able to pitch better than that.To entice her to stay as one of the paper""s few quality writers/reporters that has enough smarts to cover the Earl Williams case, he pretends that his only other writer capable of doing the job, Sweeney, is at the hospital tending to his wife having a baby: "Everything happens to me.As Lou sat at the bar and spoke to the black bartender Queenie, Dave walked over to Fred and initiated a drug deal - their conversation quickly moved from the public bar area to the restroom.Call it luck.Call it karma.I believe that everything happens for a reason.I believe hat we were destined to get thrown out of this dump...To go into business for ourselves.He suggested that they go into the offbeat business on their own as paranormal, supernatural exterminators.