“‘Noble gases,'” says Vernon, “man, you’d never get away with that now.”<\/p>\n
“Yeah, too poetic.” Sarasota grins up at a neon LOTTO. “You’d have to call them ‘centigrade-stable gaseous nonreactive elements’ or something…”<\/p>\n
“You don’t think that’s poetic?”<\/p>\n
“And they’d think up the names for new ones with those big new-drug-name computers.”<\/p>\n
“Vartifex,” Vernon announces grandly. “Glookinor!”<\/p>\n
“There should be common gases,” she says. “No, that’s boring. There should–there should be whimsical gases.”<\/p>\n
“Oxygen,” says Vernon.<\/p>\n
“What, because of fire?”<\/p>\n
“Because most of what it does, apparently,” he says as he squints at a penny, “is turn things different colors.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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