Van ripped the lamp’s page from the catalog, and dumped the rest into the recycling bin at his elbow. Van’s next catalog was chock-full of chairs. Van, his attention fully snagged now, settled deeply into the problem at hand. He was sitting uncomfortably in a lousy plastic picnic chair, one of a set of six that he had bought on a hasty lunch break at the nearest Home Depot. That situation just wouldn’t do.