Are you really a snob about small towns?” “I didn’t choose this place,” said Ezekiel. “I was brung.” “So your natural habitat is what, Atlanta?” “I don’t want to live in a city so big they have to cinch it in with a beltway,” said Ezekiel. “Just a place that has a bookstore and a Baskin-Robbins.” “Pretty demanding. You’re kind of a spoiled brat, you know.” “Or a library with books printed after the Copyright Act of 1978.” “Knowing you, I’m betting there really was a copyright act in 1978.” “Wouldn’t be funny otherwise,” said Ezekiel. “Oh,” said Shank. “Didn’t know it was funny.” “It wasn’t.
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