"You were at Harvard? And you work here now? Huh. That's one hell of a switch." And a weird switch too. Who went from Harvard to whatever shitty third rate college they had here. "I bet you get a good income from publishing. I haven't read your book, I'm not much of a reader. I like comics."

Sam was the reader, not him. He always let Sam read and summarise while he played video games or vaped.

"I think you and Bobby are the smartest people I've ever been in a room with." And that included his dad, all those annoying scientists and business elites. Bobby was a fucking genius or something, he knew so many languages and read so many books. "I guess South Dakota just appeals to intellectuals who aren't good with people."