Inferior Quotations

Bryant: Now there’s a Nexus Six over ’t the Tyrell Corporation. I wantcha t’go put the machine on it.

Deckard: An’ if the machine doesn’ work.

Sign: Enjoy

Sign: Enjoy
Coca-Cola
Trade-mark ®

IQ: Deckard hears voices in his head an’ then his vehicle flies by the Enjoy, Enjoy, Coca-Cola Trade-mark ®, Enjoy, Enjoy Coca-Cola Trade-mark ® sign. Then he’s inside a buildin’ snoopin’ in a tub where he finds an ice-cream-cone-an’-scoop-shape sliver o’ somethin’, which is clearly not a cannabis flower. He puts the sliver in a little plastic baggie. Then he leaves the premises an’ goes snoopin’ in an other apartment. Time passes. Some where else a different person puts an eye-ball-lookin’ thing on the stage of a frosty microscope. Then a couple o’bad guys enter the frosty room. They talk to the eye-ball man, and one guy rips open the eye-ball man’s fur coat from the back.

Batty: Morphology, longivity, incept dates.

IQ: They’re havin’ a conversation. The fur ripper places an eye ball on each o’ the eye-ball man’s shoulders an’ then he puts one on top of his head. Now the bad guys wanna find a character named Sebastian. Fast forward. A couple o’ weirdos an’ some other stuff.

Deckard: Fish.

IQ: The Deckard person hands the [larger than it was before] plastic baggie with the [longer than it was before] tear-drop-shape sliver o’ somethin’ inside it to a character named Cambodian lady, and she places the sliver-in-a-baggie on a surface we can’t see. She then powers on a little TV set by twistin’ the red-dot knob. The screen comes on blurry, then focuses an’ proceeds through a sequence o’ five cropped David Scharf scanning-electron-microscope photographs. First is “Surface Study” (which is a gladiola flower petal shown at 185× magnification on page 90 of Scharf’s book Magnifications), then Daisy Flowers (which shows “[m]ultiple unopened disc flowers of a[n African] Daisy’s center” at 92× magnification on page 86), then Daisy Flower (Prematurely Fertilized) (shown at 266× magnification on page 87), then Marijuana Leaf I (which is a young Cannabis-Sativa—Family-Moraceae leaf shown at 222× magnification on page 94),—

Cambodian lady: I think it was manafactured locally.

IQ: —an’ the last photograph is “High Power” (which shows Cannabis-Sativa—Family-Moraceae resin nodules on a female flower at 1,015× magnification on page 96), which moves from left to right on the screen.

Cambodian lady: Finest quality. Superior workmanship.

IQ: Then right to left.

Cambodian lady: There is a maker’s serial number, nine-nine-zero-six-nine-four-seven-ex-bee-seven-one.

IQ: The serial number shown on the screen is not in Scharf’s original photograph, an’ it doesn’t match Cambodian lady’s spoken account. On screen it looks more like I•Io • 07% BA L.

Cambodian lady: Interesting. Not fish. Snake scaaale.

Deckard: Snake.

Cambodian lady: Try Abdul Ben Hassan. He make the snake.

IQ: The woman behind her is smoking a pipe. There’s smoke in the air all around. Deckard thinks it’s fish. Cambodian lady says it’s snake. Under the microscope it’s a gladiola flower petal, then an African daisy flower, then a marijuana leaf, then a marijuana flower. Snake-scale resin-nodules remind me of kleptoplastic sea slugs.