Maybe all these years of staring into the uncaring blackness of my terminal has damaged my brain, but there are some real gems in "Tales from the TinkerPop."

"Grasily had been stationed at vertex v[32] for as long as he could remember. ... Grasily's commanding officer was org.apache.tinkerpop.gremlin.process.traversal.Traverser@76a36b71"

"The famous mystic traverser Gri Gurobindo (ग्री गुरोबिंदो) once said:

My single step in the graph is composed of the steps of numerous other traversers."

Our computers are at least 10,000 times faster than decades ago. Yet, are we having 10,000 times the fun?