How strange it began to seem that cars have bodies that never are supposed to touch, a disaster if they do. - Jonathan Lethem

For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity that compromises fiction's seriousness by dating it out of the Platonic Always, where it ought to reside.

I met someone who lives in an elevator.

Memory is a rehearsal for a show that never goes on.