Naturally Childish

We both pretended to be suffering from the effects of Walking and Thinking and Elaborate Thought at the Same Time (Einstein suffered from it, Darwin, de Sade too), and hence the person suffered from an obliviousness toward his/her immediate surroundings that approached that of a temporary blackout or complete loss of consciousness (this, though as we slipped past each other, our eyes fell like curtains when a hooker strolls through a prairie town searching for accommodation)

—Marisha Pessl - Special Topics in Calamity Physics