She hated being pregnant; it ran counter to everything she wanted from her body

If you are like that clueless 99% of humans, those I call “normaloids,” then let me suggest that you abandon this book and resume your pathetic, unthinking life!

Yesterday's performance was a ripsnorter for gaiety, vigor, and general run-around -- Virgil Thomson

Simons slides a pair of Polaroids across the table. They depict a couple of color-lit high schoolers standing in what appears to be an empty warehouse.