fire in the belly -

- говорят они там, где мы говорим 'шило в жопе'. cultural differences, так сказать.

Snow Crash

невозможно читать, как хорошо написано. хочется цитировать всё подряд:

Didn't happen anymore. Pizza delivery a major industry. A managed industry. People went to CosaNostra Pizza University four years just to learn it. Came in its doors unable to write an English sentence, from Abkhazia, Rwanda, Guanajuato, South Jersey...