24 - We'll get there

It is lunchtime at the Old Pull and Push. Antoine de Kunilemel, news journalist from Hagnag (aka the Hay and Gwair News and Gazette) is drowning his sorrows with poet-philosopher Abdul Hasib ibn Burd. They chew over the cud of local issues, and Hasib suggests to his companion that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness would be better served if instead of dubious truths, Antoine would pen words of inspiration and hope. Antoine looks at him in confusion. After all surely the job of the journalist is to spread despair. The landlord looks over, a few minutes later, and sees they are both asleep, heads together, nodding and snoring.