"—pushes against itself, see? The satellite itself is the God-damn resistance, like you're shooting a pistol, and the recoil—you ever shoot a pistol?"
"Hate 'em. Sure way to get hurt."
Platinum said: "'S like this, Buck, what Sam's try'n'a tell you, you get up 'ere in shpace, you just be'r not fart."
"Now, June," said bartender Tom, "you want to watch the talk."
"I di'n' say single thing."
"Okay, June baby, just watch it is all."
"What I mean is, everybody figures the girl is nuts, that old woman Welsh and everybody. So what you're going to see, you're going to see an insanity defense. It always happens—"
"No sumbishn barkeep's telling me how talk."
"June baby, I keep telling you—"
"Happens every time. She'll be put away a few years, and then let out, do it all over again, like—"