O grau zero do pecado: um Guia para os Perplexos

Où sont les neiges d'antan? O céu recobre o chão de verde manto que já coberto foi de neve fria, etc., etc.
P.J. O'Rourke, cómico nec plus ultra, dá uma ajudinha na actualização do elenco dos pecados:
Escolho o 3º: "Youth. Talk about worshiping false gods; why would anyone pray--or pay!--for youthfulness? The young are spotty, sweaty, chowder-headed, and woefully lacking in wisdom, experience, or control over anything, especially themselves. Yet we bear witness to the eternally babyish baby boom. Men in their sixties are on Harleys and snowboards and basketball courts, from which they will proceed to damnation by way of the emergency room. The women go to and fro in the earth, mutton dressed as lamb, with liposuction well-applied to tummy, butt, and brain. And they all come to Mass, when at all, in shorts, T-shirts, and shower flip-flops." LER_(E_RIR)