Shorts are useful. They help electrics to work harder.
Shorts you wear, and they are electrics.
Wires are electrics.
Shorts can be made by juice.
Shorts can be made by neatles, that bite like teeth.
Poppa needs more shorts.
But Oley wasn't motivated to act at the moment. Just sorting out information and connecting it with other information files in the necessarily haphazard manner that might eventually result in something called intelligence, although he didn't know that yet.
It was a week later in the kitchen, when Momma dropped a giant version of the neatle on the floor, that his information file in this area increased again.
"Is that a neatle?" Oley asked.
His mother laughed quietly and looked fondly at her son as she put the ice pick back on the table.