Skeleton Crew

by Stephen King

grok

What did you call a beach that never ended? Why, you called it a desert!

ubiquitous.”

quintillion?

astrogator,

salvor’s

Spangler said nothing. The man was a fool. Johnson Spangler had learned a long time ago that the only way to talk to a fool was to ignore him.

supercilious

A snatch of a half-remembered Tennyson poem occurred to him, and he muttered it aloud:“ ‘ “I am half-sick of shadows,” said the Lady of Shalott…’ ”