Liberated Letterman

   So now that it's all over for him, essentially his life's work, he realizes, he says, that what seemed vitally important and significant at the time, was really just silliness.  I think he was always aware of that, judging from his demeanor and his thinly veiled sardonic and sarcastic outlook on life.  If it's any consolation to you, Dave, and I realize it is not, you can rest assured knowing that your newly proclaimed revelation is true for almost everybody.  The heart of what we do, what we spend our lives engaged in,  does not amount to that hill of beans.