Just as Scottie has a haunted quality, Kaufman's Joel Barish is bedogged by the past as well.

I'm not looking for any opportunities to cause any trouble. It's simply the nature of us cartomancers and other diviners to see through a window into hidden processes, that finite minds can't fathom.

The astronauts headed for the moon.

He had returned with a chipped bowl full of hen's eggs. ‘Nice fresh cackleberries for your mum and dad.’