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Everybody leads with the expected, but still earthshaking, first Pakistani nuclear blasts.
It might be, however, that his contempt is too much on the surface, so that his bitterly conclusive outburst to his daughter on a mountaintop in Switzerland feels less than earthshaking.
The response No problem is probably intended as a sincere expression of willingness to serve, but it comes across as a polite way of saying, I don't really mind your having taken up my valuable time coping with the mentally and physically taxing demands imposed by your overbearing, though trivial request, because I am an accommodating, thoughtful person paid to occupy myself with major decisions concerning issues of earthshaking consequence, with but don't let it happen again implied.
There's nothing earthshaking about those pieces, falling as they do into the walking-around-and-peering or flight-of-whimsy tendencies of that venerable rubric.