“If the cartoon were completely accurate, though, life would be a cacophany of spoinks.”
“If I was in a cartoon right now, the caption would read: "Gulp!”
“Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.”
“The sudden approximation of my dull, provincial life to a New Yorker cartoon was exhilarating.”
“The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too.”
“Or more accurately, since we were in the plane, our shadows figured as well inside the shadow of the airplane skimming over mountain and field. Which would mean we too were imprinted into the earth.”