"I wanted to be like, So, thees steam-powered generator you speek ov...how doz eet work?, but I was afraid that would be too "Nazi-scientist-in-an-Indiana-Jones-Movie."
~Me, on asking one of the Sisters at the Fransiscan retreat house about steam power. (It's for a story, but I knew she'd never 'get it' and just think I was strange.)
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