Artemis hooked the speaker over one ear, adjusting the mike stem so it wound across hismouth.'Foaly? Are you listening?''Are you kidding?' came the reply. 'This is better than human soap operas.
In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend I’m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer. Soap opera characters make emphatic pronouncements. They ball up their fists and state their goals...