"There was something about Rize, Milgrim decided, reclining fully dressed across his New Yorker bedspread, that reminded him of one of the more esoteric efforts of eating exceptionally hot Szechuan."[...]
"Are you really so scared of terrorists that you'll dismantle the structures that made America what it is?"
"She drove to Malibu with the Blue Ant helmet in the carton beside her"
Chapter summaries (may contain plot and character teaser / "spoiler" information):
Chapter 29. INSULATION
Feeling the unique state of mind that is Rize, Milgrim surprises himself and Brown with a non-conscious, lucid commentary integrating nationalism, laws, terrorism and gambling that ends in him firing a shot from an imaginary gun and "having no idea at all what to make of whatever it was that had just happened."" [311 characters]
Are drugs really needed to make such a commentary ?
Chapter 30. FOOTPRINT
Hollis takes her new locative headgear to the beach where she sees a cartoonish, beige Statue of Liberty emerge from the Malibu sand.Hollis then finds her way back to Bobby Chombo's to discover the warehouse empty suggesting that "Bobby did a runner." Putting the locative helmet on, she discovers Archie gone but the wireframe storage container is still there, "something glowing at its center." [397 characters]
"locative helmet" sounds more advanced than today's Augmented Reality devices, such as the LifeClipper, which usually consist of a head mounted visor and a backpack, containing the computer, battery, GPS, video etc. equipment.