They were watching television, engrossed in a fantasy world in which people traveled between stars not in lifetimes but in hours, where energies sufficient to level cities were wielded by lone altruists, where men and women changed sex four and five times a night, where everything was possible and nothing was forbidden. It was a scream straight from the toad buried at the base of the brain, that ancient reptile that wants everything at once, delivered to its feet and set ablaze.

He stood before a tribunal of six spheres of light, representing concentrations of wisdom as pure as artifice allowed, and a human overseer. “Here is our finding,” one construct said. “You can retain the bulk of your encounter, since it is relevant to your inquiries. The conversations with the drowned woman, though, will have to be suppressed.” Its voice was compassionate, gently regretful, adamant.

They soon save countries including France and Australia from control spires and must fight and defeat the evil MaloMyotismon (BelialVamdemon), the digivolved form of Myotismon (Vamdemon) from the previous series.

“Snakes!” he whispered. “By God, the sky is full of snakes.”

Undine hugged him spontaneously. “That was very well done! I wish I could have gotten hold of you when you were young. I could have made a wizard out of you.”

She mostly uses carbon dioxide based cool drink sorcery in battle.

Metaphors are, apparently, here to help, but Double Metaphors “grab hold of your true thoughts and feelings and devour them one after another, fattening themselves …  They have been dwelling in the depths of your psyche since ancient times.”

For instance, GoogLeNet has multiple floppy ear detectors that appear to detect slightly different levels of droopiness, length, and surrounding context to the ears.

Those who use foul language on social networks (such as Twitter) are sending an expensive signal that they are free – and, ironically, competent. 

Zagreus puts the novel’s series of set-pieces in motion by sending the young idiot Dan Boleyn on a series of visits to prominent “Apes,” the novel’s term for fraudulent artistic poseurs, largely drawn from the upper or upper-middle classes.