Joseph Campbell and Steve Martin, together at last

Joseph Campbell had written a new two-volume book about the 1800's, entitled, appropriately, "1800's". There was a picture of a man in a sombrero on the cover.

Christian showed me a passage from the middle of the book, a page from which there were many quotes from other writers. The paragraph he showed me was by Steve Martin, who explained that when CDs were made, new CDs were flipped by a "flipper" before they landed in piles of newly-burned CDs, likening the CD creation process to that of making burgers. There was great underlying meaning to this analogy, as one would naturally expect from Joseph Campbell, but perhaps not always from Steve Martin.