Instead of screaming with horror and astonishment at these extraordinary talking animal-giants, or in any normal way freaking out, Max calmly takes them at face value.
George, son of resolutely "green", computer-loathing parents, discovers that his new next-door-neighbour is a scientist, who owns an extraordinary talking computer capable of whisking them off into space.
An early highlight was Stan Grant's extraordinary Talking to My Country, which, for anyone who cares about creating an Australia that includes the original inhabitants of the land is, like the cover declares, "the book that every Australian should read".
For the record, the book in question eventually percolated through the mailroom and turned out to have a 14-word title: "Fifty Celebrate Fifty Fiftyy Extraordinary Women Talk About Facing, Turning and Being Fifty".
But control -- as in, you need to have it to lose it -- really is the binding ingredient in this extraordinary visual talk-a-thon.
"He came in and did this extraordinary thing, talking and singing while the music was going," Mr. Burns said, "and immediately I knew that we were on to something new, something that had never been filmed before".
"It is extraordinary how students talk in their throats.
We should also, in the aftermath of an extraordinary economic collapse, talk about what the goals of a society really are.
The fortieth President of the United States set a high standard with his extraordinary ability to talk and be heard.
The extraordinary meeting to talk about the court's relationship with Africa comes with Kenya's president and vice president facing trial for crimes against humanity at the ICC in the Hague.
