“Friend Tim shakes hands with Perfect Specimen of Mankind. Will never wash right hand again.”
“I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.”
“It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect.”
“They are friends because they are both beautiful specimens of maledom.""Beautiful specimens of maledom?""That's right. And there are very few of those species in existence presently, so they need to stick together in order to survive.”
“I shake his hand, and feel the jolt of electricity again from him. He laughs and raises his hand to show me the joy-buzzer in his palm.”
“I believe we have an utterly unique specimen on our hands: a child who listens.”