[Koby's somewhere around the Gettysburg Address -- a high point of the book, once he figures out annotating and highlighting, it's Over -- but the voice makes him startle a bit, looking up through glasses that have slipped down his nose. He clears his throat, pushes them back up with a knuckle, taking in the unfamiliar man for a moment.

Then he offers a smile, carefully cautious, trying (and failing) to place the accent.] It's one of my favorites, yeah. I've read a couple other biographies, but this one's the best. He doesn't exist in my world -- Lincoln, I mean. So I like, um...reading about him.

[He has a crush on a dead president, don't make fun of him.]