Let me see if I can put it in words that even the inebriated might understand. - Tom Robbins

To pragmatists, the letter Z is nothing more than a phonetically symbolic glyph, a minor sign easily learned, readily assimilated, and occasionally deployed in the course of a literate life. To cynics, Z is just an S with a stick up its butt.

She lunched on papaya poo poo or mango mu mu or some other fruity foo foo bursting with overripe tropical vowels.

Not naive, Conch Shell had corrected him, "He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear."