I hereby solemnly resolve not to make any New Year's resolutions--and that's the only resolution I think I'll manage to keep.

--Say, what year is it turning, anyway?

My dad's a doctor--the same as me. Almost seems like I should start in with "like his father before him and his father before him," but we all know that's not true ( Read more... )

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((Click.))So I've been thinking it's all curses and business on the Network lately. I mean, that's all we ever talk about. Even in Korea, we didn't talk about the war all the time. And telephones are for more than just bad news. Same thing with letters. Why not the Network too? All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. ... Never ( Read more... )

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You know what this place lacks? Genuine spontaneity. I mean, every day it's the same routine. You get up, you get dressed, you walk the dog, you realize you've got a mask instead of a face--or maybe you don't have a face at all, or maybe you've got a dog's face to match your dog (which makes for a great joke when someone asks you for a match), ( Read more... )

Very funny, City. Really, very funny. You've outdone yourself. I don't know how you do it. But you just keep on being amazing. Or maybe I should be congratulating the deities. But whoever did it, you deserve a medal or a raise or whatever the hell they give you around here for a prize. It's not like I haven't heard that one a hundred times ( Read more... )

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--There we go.

((A soft shuffle--the device might be in his front pocket, but placed there carefully, purposefully. When he speaks, it's not to the device but to someone else.))So--afternoon! And it is afternoon. That's all I'm saying by that. Not morning, not night, and I think I had something, oh, around noon, so it ( Read more... )

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((Click! as it comes on, and then a moment of fumbling--he's still new with these Network things. And, easy as it is to type, he'd rather talk.))So is now a good time to inquire about employment ( Read more... )

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[Of the most accidental nature, too. After all, what man in his right mind (more or less) would realize quite what's going on when he wakes and finds that his cot has been transported to the middle of a square in some city somewhere--although it's the City, of course. One can hear that it is in the background, between the sound of ( Read more... )