Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.

“If someone gave you a device with which you could see entire worlds just by hol…”

“What now is not just a panic-stricken question tossed into a dark unknown. What…”

“But it never worked that way, and the sex just made her lonelier. I understood …”

“Gen was sleeping the sleep of the heavily drugged.”