Sublime

chapters 1 through 4 construct a detailed portrait of what life might be like within just ten or twenty years.

a personage whose refrigerator-like build, rubbery face, and heavy eyelids brought to mind some anthropomorphic piece of furniture in a Disney movie.

Eliot Rosewater.

this is bullshit of the rankest vintage,

There was already a well-known nature writer named David Rains Wallace, so Fred Hill, Nadell’s boss, who had once worked for Sierra Club Books, suggested he use his full name.

lot just

Luxury was a vulgar burden.

“Our great secret is Wuling Yang.”