This is the real thing,' said Caroline. 'It's the deepest, the profoundist. It's...

This is the real thing,' said Caroline. 'It's the deepest, the profoundist. It's the big bazonga, it's really existential.'
"OK," I said, watching a distant sweeper with a faulty program banging again and again into the information kiosk, 'just don't tell me it's a metaphor, OK?"