You start guessing what the tune might be. You try to pick it out of the noise. You try this, you try that, you start to get something—it’s half-baked but you start putting in notes which are missing or not quite the right notes . . . and bit by bit . . .
HANNAH What do you do?
VALENTINE You start guessing what the tune might be. You try to pick it out of the noise. You try this, you try that, you start to get something—it’s half-baked but you start putting in notes which are missing or not quite the right notes . . . and bit by bit . . . (He starts to dumdi-da to the tune of ‘Happy Birthday’.) Dumdi-dum-dum, dear Val-en-tine, dumdi-dum-dum to you—the lost algorithm!
HANNAH (Soberly) Yes, I see. And then what?
VALENTINE I publish.
