2666 - pg. 112

It made them laugh it seemed so chaotic. Until then they hadn't been in good spirits. They had looked at things and listened to the people who could help them, but only as a part of a grander scheme. On the ride back to the hotel, they lost the sense of being in a hostile environment, although hostile wasn't the word, an environment that existed on some parallel plane where they couldn't make their presence felt, imprint themselves, unless they raised their voices, unless they argued, something they had no intention of doing.