T.R. considered it carefully. "A thing you learn real fast, when you are in the oil business"—he pronounced it "ol bidness" and Willem honestly didn’t know if it was wry Texan self-parody, or actually how he talked—"or mining, is that almost every part of the world is weird and difficult. We don’t see those parts because we prefer to build our habitations in more hospitable areas. Which are rare. We come to think of Connecticut, Florida, France, and all that as how the world is. Places like this being aberrations. Thing is, geology don’t care about our convenience and so it puts the oil and the minerals in locations that are truly random. You put on a blindfold, Dr. Castelein—"