Whether frivolous or pretentious, tabloid or broadsheet, idle chatter is fuelled by "curiosity" and a nihilistic thirst for novelty.
Is it not better to remain open?" Perhaps this is an unfair question, an expression of our current cultural restlessness and thirst for novelty, but I must ask: having already put a decisive stamp on the American short story, can David Means unbind the strictures he has devised, and find a new way of coming full circle?
"Micro-genres dovetail perfectly with online media's thirst for novelty," said Mark Richardson, an editor at Pitchfork, a music Web site.
This constant thirst for novelty leaves nothing but a trail of perfectly good but totally forgotten venues that eventually get shut down because people forgot to Yelp review it.
It's also a fact that jolly old capitalism, with its inbuilt thirst for novelty, makes us inclined to hanker after the latest model of anything, including animal companions.
In fairness, it usually wasn't the recipes' traditionalism that was the problem, but the all-too-modern thirst for novelty.
As the Czech principal conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiří Bělohlávek explains: "I think the richness of styles in Martinů's work is due to his inextinguishable thirst for novelty and inspiration, and his ability to extract from many sources the right amount of elements into his own musical language.
Limited editions, like Mountain Dew Live Wire and Pepsi Holiday Spice, invite partnerships with stores while catering to increasingly fickle consumers thirst for novelty.
To keep pace in the competitive bar scene and satisfy customers' thirst for novelty, most businesses will refresh their menus every year or so, participate at pop-up events and invite guest shifts.
The dramatic flourish piques our thirst for novelty like nothing else.
