“Totchos!” Turbo was howling and reaching before the plate hit the table, and the race was on. Turbo and D-Tay, both now aged ten in spirit, grabbed and shoveled at a plate full of Newberry's specialty, a heaping helping of tater tots laced with ground beef, cheese, tomatoes, and salsa.

Oh, snerts! I nearly forgot why I came over.

Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.

Indeed, most moderns who know Luria's work only from secondary sources would be completely flummoxed to encounter the texts themselves with their endlessly arcane numerology, almost indescribably peculiar eroticism and byzantine, almost un-unravelable mythology.