“Anita had the mechanics of marriage down pat, even to the subtlest conventions. If her approach was disturbingly rational, systematic, she was thorough enough to turn out a credible counterfeit of warmth.”

— Kurt Vonnegut , book Player Piano

Source: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 1 (p. 25)

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