“You have a humming dodo bird," I said stupidly.”
“Common sense used to be a great trait for one to have, and hence the name, common it was plentiful. Today's it's as rare as the Dodo bird.”
“No thanks…Dodo, was it? I don’t know if I can watch you have performance problems twice in ten days.”
“And if I was humming "Happy Birthday" and smiling stupidly as I fled for my life—well, that was nobody's business, was it?”
“Soon the Mississippi night hummed by outside his windows, bug, bird, frog, the wind on his face.”
“Find the bird, find the loop, Yakob vai don't you understand you goddamned stupid yutzi”