<<They made me watch White-Out before I came here.>>
<<Mudochian bullshit>> Julian said. <<I know>> Flora replied.
<<It wasn't even a proper word before that show came out. It gets used now; I use it mainly in an ironic sense, like the cultural white-out of the Australian government. The other guys here, though, they've pretty much adopted it.>>
(<<Is it just an accident the parts of the electro-magnetic spectrum these sensors are built to detect now carry verbal conversations between telephone users?>> Varanasi said. <<Are the telephone companies ushering in their own demise by reawakening our native telepathy...)>>
<<Like liquid paper>> Flora said.