Are you mocking the concept?" "Not necessary," Berko says. "The concept mocks itself. - Michael Chabon

As a lifelong habit of marijuana I was used to having even the most dreadful phenomena prove, on further inspection, to be only the figments of my paranoid fancy...

...as with most redheaded women what beauty she possessed was protean and odd.

The young men listen dutifully, for the most part, and from time to time some of them even take the trouble to go over to the college library, and dig up one or another of his novels, and crouch there, among the stacks, flipping impatiently through the pages, looking for parts that sound true.