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1 " Behind Hagedorn’s back, Kawakita had nicknamed the administrator “Stumpy.” Only Margo and a few of Frock’s other graduate students had known the name referred not to Hagedorn’s diminutive size, but to Stumpiniceps troglodytes, a particularly mundane kind of bottom-feeder that populated the oceans of the Carboniferous period. "
― Douglas Preston , Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)
2 " tape "
3 " I have often found it true that the louder a person speaks, the less they have to say. "
4 " Police Scuba team's unofficial motto: We dive in shit and look for dead things. "
5 " Humboldt Kill dive. "
6 " SDS remnants, "
7 " his oxygen tanks "
8 " incipient scurvy. If they can’t take vitamin D "
9 " Already, Margo had noticed the early buildup for next year’s blockbuster exhibition, 21st Century Plagues. "
10 " Crazy damn job, looking for dead bodies. "
11 " No crazier than killing Vietcong or packing explosives under some poor bastard’s hull, "
12 " We don’t just look for dead bodies. That day, we were actually looking for a cache of heroin somebody’d thrown off a bridge. "
13 " The Mole People, by Jennifer Toth (Chicago Review Press, 1993). "
14 " Just the whole city watching, "
15 " PS 362. "
16 " fractal "
17 " VANDERBILT "
18 " New York City without "
19 " Arthur Kill, "
20 " Occam’s razor. The simplest explanation is usually the correct one. "