“Oh, the mundanity.”
The New York Times chose to write about the mundanity of the Trump trial in New York City. (“Trump’s Trial Challenge: Being Stripped of Control”).
“Mundanity” is not a word Oz has heard before. Mundane, for sure. As in, being ordinary and uninteresting.
Oz, however, is transported back to the crash of the Hindenburg balloon at Lakenhurst, New Jersey, on May 6, 1937, killing 36 people.
“This is terrible; this is one of the worst of the worst catastrophes in the world. Oh it’s… [unintelligible] its flames… Crashing, oh! oh, four or five hundred feet into the sky, and it’s a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. There’s smoke, and there’s flames, now, and the frame is crashing to the ground, not quite to the mooring mast. Oh, the humanity, and all the passengers screaming around here!”
Today, it has become a somewhat sarcastic remark. A bombastic response to a perceived tragedy that gets blown out of proportion.
“Oh, the mundanity” might not be a bad description of the Trump trial in New York City.
Leaving Oz 