"I know a way we can get rich," said Clarissa several days later to her father, Tom Willoughby. "Everybody says they're going to sell their houses for nothing and move out of the neighborhood. Go get a lot of money and buy them all. Then you can sell them again and get rich."
"I wouldn't buy them for a dollar each. Three of them have disappeared already, and all the families but us have their furniture moved out in their front yards. There might be nothing but vacant lots in the morning."
"Good, then buy the vacant lots. And you can be ready when the houses come back."
"Come back? Are the houses going to come back? Do you know anything about this, young lady?"
"I have a suspicion verging on a certainty. As of now I can say no more."
Three eminent scientists were gathered in an untidy suite that looked as though it belonged to a drunken sultan.
"This transcends the meta-physical. It impinges on the quantum continuum. In some ways it obsoletes Boff," said Dr. Velikof Vonk.
"The contingence on the intransigence is the most mystifying aspect," said Arpad Arkabaranan.
"Yes," said Willy McGilly. "Who would have thought that you could do it with a beer can and two pieces of cardboard? When I was a boy I used an oatmeal box and red crayola."