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"Shit, not ‘shat,’ " Liz corrected " ‘Shat’ is not a word"

These two: I could barely keep up, and the problem wasn’t merely that I was sirlfriend I felt like I had stepped straight from Harvard, circa 1990, into a movie fro it out

"Well, I think English is a great major," I remarked

"Thank you See, Jonas? Not everyone is a total philistine"

"I warn you," he told her, wagging a fingerto another dreary scientist"

Shescientists Tell me, Tim, what kind of science do you do?"

"Biochemistry"

"Which is…? I’ve alondered"

I found ely happy to be asked this question Perhaps it was just ablocks of life, basically What s live, what makes them work, what makes them die That’s about all there is to it"

She nodded approvingly "Well, that’s nicely said I’d say there’s a bit of the poet in you after all I’ to like you, Tim from Ohio" She polished off her drink and set it aside "As for me, I’m really here to form a philosophy of life An expensive way to do it, but it seeo with it"

This luxurious arand a pop to amass a personality--struckto learn elic By this point, I was utterly convinced that she was a creature of the spheres

"You don’t approve?"

Soroar Piece of advice ‘That ue he cannot win a woman’ "