"This is now a matter of national security, sir."  
  "This is Franz Kafka, is what it is."  
  Tom Hanks looks at chair-rocker, who writes the name down.  
  "He's a Czech writer," Thomas Lull says. "He's been dead a hundred years. I was attempting irony."  
  "Sir, please do not attempt irony. This is a most serious issue."
Ch. 42 (p. 444). - River of Gods (2006)























