Speak of the devil—he marches through the door, and becomes apoplectic when he learns of the upheaval.

But by the time the novel is over we are left with the perception that the autistic boy is living in a kind of precog vision of a future decaying into “gubbish,” into a dead simulacrum from which all animating spirit has been leached ( a key Dickian concept ), as real or more so in some sense than the consensus reality of the other characters.

Green beans, also called French beans, can be pickled and made into pickled beans.

Many are eagerly anticipating Bruichladdich's Octomore line—intended to be the peatiest whisky from Islay (with a peating level of 129 phenol ppm in the malt in 2003).