Song of Kali

by Dan Simmons

Her voice was soft, modulated by her three years at Cambridge, but never clipped in the flat British manner.

All Brits have flat, clipped voices, do we? >:|

I had never even been able to interest her in the trashy Stephen King novels I would bring to the beach each summer.

Poor Steve. I wonder if he shares your opinion that his work is trashy, Dan?

We had few books and only two teachers, one of whom was slowly going mad from syphilis.

All the best teachers go mad from syphilis.

What was the name of that silly kiddie film we spent five dollars to see with Dan and Barb right before we left?" "Star Wars,"

Snob.