“Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.”

“Time's a goon right?You gonna let that goon push you around?”

“Time's a goon right? Isn't that the expression?”

“time's a goon”

“Now there are permanent gray smudges in Scotty's vision. He says he likes them--actually, what he says is: "I consider them a visual enhancement." We think they remind him of his mom.”

“Now that Scotty has entered the realm of myth, everyone wants to own him. And maybe they should. Doesn't a myth belong to everyone?”

“And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished.”