From the battered, scratched Fiche of a 1949 Tribune. The fellow's ability to write dialogue that doesn't sound like anything spoken by humans is oddly endearing. "I can hear a sound like the roar of the sea. "Maybe that buzzing sound is not the roar of the sea."

What buzzing sound? she might ask. Who hears someone talk about the roar of the sea and presumes it's a buzzing sound?