He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school. He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.

I know it’s hard to believe when you look at me now, with my buzz cut and all (we are a strange pair, me and Carol—a butch with long hair and a buzz-cutted femme), but that’s the way I was.

activate the economy

Dubious, dubious! Such fluctuability is fit only for a stock-jobber