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chatting with Corvallis Kawasaki and Enoch Root,
“No,” Enoch answered. “The independent, sovereign nation of . . . wait for it . .
gold letters on the front, it claimed, in French, Dutch, and English, to be an official document from Zelrijk-Aalberg.
“Listen,” Enoch said, “there is a long and honorable history, dating back to the Royal Society, of the gentleman scientist. And now the lady scientist. We don’t like to acknowledge it because we wish to maintain a polite facade of egalitarianism. But there’s a reason why so many important theorems are named after members of the titled nobility of Europe.”
“A very basic question: can the connectome self-modify?” Enoch asked.
guns and ammunition and K-rations, yes, but also trophies of war that their father had looted from the corpses of Nazis, pictures he had taken while liberating concentration camps, stashes of European pornography, phials of morphine, ancient bottles of Bordeaux and cognac, correspondence from ladies who were not his wife. Dodge and John had very carefully backed out of that bomb shelter and closed the door and locked it
