"Why? She’s damned well behaved with Carol Anne. And there’s lots of history and drama there. The other night she proclaimed herself the Ummacculate Receptacle which is about as good a malaproptender as I’ve heard. Pretty soon she’ll challenge me to play Name dat Pope."

"Receptacle? You think she meant it that way?"

“Wadda I know? I’m jest try’n to keep my chin above watta here. I don’t understand what’s going on. I mean, this is all way outta bounds–even considering. We don’t know who we are, what we are.”

“Abe, you think it’s true you can’t understand reality without Math?”