It may have been Nurse Agnes’ looping signature that touched him off, or the way flesh muffined from the pumps of the fat lady that boarded the bus at his stop every morning: a spark is a spark, and one was as good as any other.

I'm much stronger than you, so you can't possibly win.

...there has of late been a tendency towards a much more pronounced amalgamation and trustification in industry.

The idea is too tempting, it's obsessive.