They’re each worse than the other. It seems like a paradox, but it’s Batiuk’s gift for dialogue that he can make every sentence he writes worse than every other sentence he has written or will write.
What instrument is the woman next to Mort holding? (And is she even holding it? It kinda looks more like it’s just sitting on her lap, since her arms appear to be at her sides?) It looks like the body of a violin, but don’t violins normally have a neck? What even is that thing?
Insert “beady-eyed nitpicker” comment here.