“Breaking up is like knocking over a Coke machine. You can’t do it in one push; you got to rock it back and forth a few times, and then it goes over.” (Jerry Seinfeld). As comedian Nate Bargatze tells it, his wife’s parents are divorced and she wants to visit them “in one fell swoop”. She says first she will visit her mother, then come home, then go visit her father. Nate responds with: “I don’t think you know what ‘one fell swoop’ even means.” (She must approve his stand-up routine or they wouldn’t still be married!) The bottom line is, you can’t knock over a coke machine in one fell swoop. And you can’t write a book in one fell swoop either.
