“Why is edamame always ready to expire? It´s so urgent for a vegetable. Edamame. It sounds like an assisted form of suicide. Is there an advertising concept in this?”
“And if so, I could fill my time with the new entry on my rather exclusive social register, whoever had created the Howling Vegetable of N.W. 4th Street, and the fact that this sounded rather like a Sherlock Holmes title made it no less urgent.”
“I liked the sound of that. A true plant person. It sounded so much more alive, and warmer than a true advertising person.”
“He made a sound close to a growl before speaking. “Why do you resist my assistance?”She stopped walking and faced him. “Because I don't like you.”
“Why do I always sound like the chick in this relationship?”
“An urgent wish is no guarantor of a sound solution.”