How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you....

“ How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned just a few afternoons long, in the end.As for flying, Dose never even glanced at the sky. Flying was a summer within a summer, a whim. So why think of it at all? ”

Jonathan Lethem

From : The Fortress of Solitude