“Zackary Connor's office building was made of glass, endless windows giving the impression of being outside. It was exactly how I liked nature--air conditioned and bug free.”

“The building is a ginormous 175-story office building that juts into the sky like a glass and steel erection.”

“I arrive at the Gray Holdings headquarters in downtown Seattle two hours later. The building is a ginormous 175-story office building that juts into the sky like a glass and steel erection. It’s fifteen minutes until two when I arrive – just in time for the interview. I walk through the glass doors and into the lobby, which is also floor-to-ceiling glass and steel. This fascinates me, because buildings back in Portland are made of grass and mud.”

“When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.”

“But it was only hot outside, and generally I only walked outside between one air-conditioned place to another.”

“Soon the Mississippi night hummed by outside his windows, bug, bird, frog, the wind on his face.”