He mentioned a woman named Beth, saying, “They threw away the mold and shut down the factory after making that one, you know what I mean?” (Location 343)
without the passion, the best one could hope for was an occasional engagement at some hippie wedding where, if we were lucky, the guests would be too stoned to realize just how bad we really were. (Location 452)
Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer. Ions might charge the air, but they fell flat when it came to charging the imagination (Location 460)