Dear Mr. Waters,’” he answered. “‘I am writing to thank you for your electronic correspondence, received via Ms. Vliegenthart this sixth of April, from the United States of America, insofar as geography can be said to exist in our triumphantly digitized contemporaneity.’” “Augustus, what the hell?” “He has an assistant,” Augustus said. “Lidewij Vliegenthart. I found her. I emailed her. She gave him the email. He responded via her email account.” “Okay, okay. Keep reading.” “‘My response is being written with ink and paper in the glorious tradition of our ancestors and then transcribed by Ms.
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