"Where's pants all the time now? I wasn't a show. I was in a show with jumpsuit girl," he says. "She did better than most of us on our comps exams." Richard is creeping in the stacks, listening to them have this conversation about what the right like verb to clinching is or whatever. But then he hears these people in the library, like declining verbs in Greek. He jumps in and anybody who has taken any language course knows the value of being able to jump in with the like one thing that you know in the sea of stuff that you don't know because you know what will make you seem the smartest.