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"Their mood lifted further as the sun began to move down the western half of the sky, and by the time they where back in their rattling car and driving toward a sunset that no one of any sensibility would dream of building a city like Los Angeles in front of they where suddenly feeling astonishingly and irrationally happy and and didn't even mind that the terrible old car radio would only play two stations, and those simultaneously. So what, they were both playing good rock and roll."

"He gazed out at the Pacific as well. There were little sandpipers running along the margin of the shore which seemed to have this problem: they needed to find their food in the sand which a wave had just washed over, but they couldn't bear to get their feet wet. To deal with this problem they ran with an odd kind of movement as if they'd been constructed by somebody very clever in Switzerland."