"Don't speak unless you're spoken to, please. You're a moron, and it grates on me," said the Fed, getting angrier.
I defenestrated myself (pg. 250) -- The act of throwing someone or something out of a window. Still.
My sister's hyperbolic response...(pg. 332) -- Seems not the curve, but using hyperbole, that is, overstatement.
Erased de Kooning Drawing (pg. 284) -- Those wacky artist types!
On page 263 I might have caught an spellcheck error. The character says "Once I coded a logarithm that made your computer run at the pace of the J train." I think that should have been "...coded an algorithm that made..."
spelt pretzels (pg. 170) -- Spelt is a healthful kind of wheat. Isabel doesn't care for healthful food.
"I keep asking myself," whispered Sabetha... "are we smarter than that woman's chicken?" -- pg 584
Maybe you got so you were enjoying the ennui."
"The what?"
"Ennui, you illiterate. That is the restless need for some kind of action without having the outlet for any action at all. It is like weltschmerz." (pg. 6)
the little white Prelude 3 System massager. (pg. 141) -- Well! That was interesting to research!