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Quote #4
We went to a DVS Pharmacy Superstore, and she comparison-shopped for home endoscopy kits.
... I picked up a box. "This one is the cheapest. You swallow the pills and they take pictures as they go down." (22.43, 45)
Okay, (1), awesome. Seriously. This is another fantastic use of technology, and can we please make this happen? But (2), Titus doesn't get Violet's game here. He's thinks they're actually comparison shopping, while Violet's instead trying to screw up her corporate profile so she can be invisible to the feed.
Quote #5
"So they're sitting there, and my dad holds up his hand, and it has this big lump on one of the fingers, like some kind of cyst? And my mom's like Steve, what's that, is it malignant? And he goes, Honey, I hope it's benign, and he pulls a little pull-tab and the skin unpeels and under it is an engagement ring for her, already on his finger! So he takes it off and slips it on her finger and it constricts and clamps on and she's like, Omigod! Omigod! And everyone in the restaurant starts clapping. And she's like, No, I don't have any like circulation to my finger, and so they had to go to a jeweler really quick and get it adjusted." (29.7)
First: gross. People are eating, dude. Second, we really don't recommend putting on a ring that has recently emerged from a cyst (whether of the benign of malignant variety). Third, and more to the point, the people of future Earth apparently have so much bonus technology that they can put it to really foul use. Must be nice.
Quote #6
She would constantly be whispering jokes to me, little jokes between the two of us. She especially made fun of plastic. She'd say, "They're all wearing oil. All their clothes. They don't have anything on but oil." I would whisper back to her, "They're wearing dinosaurs. Dead dinosaurs drippy all over them." (43.7)
Violet and her mom joke about one of the biggest technological innovations of the industrial revolution: the ability to use oil, which is in almost everything. Think about this next time you put on your best stretchy skinny jeans.