Gnomon

by Nick Harkaway

Just because something is done according to the law does not mean that it is lawful. Law

I teach them reading and disrespect for authority, and I consider my work well done.

Neith snorts, recognising the wayward flowstate—the

the dialogue between fugue and logic which is part of her professional armament.

Fernweh. It’s German—the longing to be somewhere one has never been, the grief one feels at the absence of persons yet unmet.

too much poetry in the flowstate—and

and above all with things that can tell their own stories by digital report rather than by their scars.

It sounded right in her head, the irreverent gumshoe swatting down mystical pomposity.