Maya begged some cash off Therese, went to a cut-rate language school in the Schwabing section of Munchen, and bought 500 cc’s of education tinctures. These particular philters were said to convey a new plasticity for language, "giving the adult brain the eager syntactical receptiveness of a child of three." All the smart drugs in the world couldn’t make the Deutsch language a cheap or easy accomplishment—but the "child of three" part certainly met its billing. The neural dope found her inbuilt mastery of English and put its pharmaceutical foot right through it, like a boot through a stained-glass window.