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Upstairs: He could always go upstairs and dial up his simulation. It was still running on the Telligentsia server, waiting for him as always. It didn’t care that he’d been made a fool of at work, didn’t know about the bug, had no idea that a whole company waiting for its IPO had suspended sales bec…

The world of pointers to pointers, arrays of pointers, pointers to structures containing pointers to strings. In comparison to which the death of Foucault meant nothing.

Or no: his death seemed perfectly timed, emblematic, a pointer backward to something I was finished with. I was suddenly glad …

June turned to July. I began staying late in the evenings. I stopped calling friends altogether. The Democrats speculated that Mondale might choose Geraldine Ferrarro as his running mate, making her the first-ever woman to run for the vice presidency of the United States—but it barely moved me. The…

The name of a variable is really a symbolic name for its address in memory, he said. And the “type” of the data says how much space it occupies: characters get one byte; the size of integers and floating-point numbers (numbers with decimal places) is determined by the particular hardware. There are…

You tell yourself: you
can use this later, this
humiliation.

I went home to my nasty habits: poem-writing, smoking, tequila-swilling.

A story maybe.

Second cigarette. Third shot.

Or a joke.