But so did cocaine, sounds, fast cars, words, fame, fashion — all of which he treated as entities, like people.
That sounds fast, but it means that it takes the quake nearly two minutes to travel the 200 miles from Oaxaca to Mexico City.
"Consumers buy what they think is neat and cool," said Jim Weisser, a telecommunications consultant in Tokyo, "and 100 megabits per second is a nice round number and sure sounds fast".
4.2GHz sounds fast, and surely is better than 4.0GHz, but when you're throttled all the time that won't mean much, let alone the fact that the processor only 'boosts' to that speed some of the time.
The resulting music is vivid and different between the two mental states; the melody during REM sleep sounds fast and lively, whereas that in SWS sleep is slow and tranquil.
The results were dramatic, he says: Tarin sounded "faster" but "less luxurious" than Parin, because less work goes into pronouncing a "t," which uses only the tip of the tongue.
"Britcore" was a genre with its own unique sound – faster than American rap and littered with British slang and Jamaican patois.
That might sound fast, but it's not when you need to print thousands and thousands of them.
They have names that sound fast and indomitable, names like American cars and electronics, like Firestar and Mercury and Zenith.
That may not sound fast, but it is 10,000 times the speed typically reached by a droplet on an unlubricated rough surface.
