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You feel it, the sweet cold release of metal death.

That's her using the method on you. Feels different over the phone.

Her canny method, it must be.

It's her, she's joining in with the gäng!

A soft, excited laughter folds into each word -- like sugar melting into warm cream.

'Miracle' Line -- like the card in PSEUDOPOD's pocket. It's a phone sex thing.

His expression is soft, curious.

He thought he'd be dead. He isn't sure how to conduct himself alive.

Seeing what will come with it.

No existential effacement detected with this one. Nice.

Maybe we're bomb proof, maybe we die grooving. Either way -- it will mean victory.

Evil. Evil. Turn it off!

No use. This disc must use a non-standard encoding method. You'll need special equipment to play it.

Reeeally get up in there.

Or, worse: It gets adapted into a film.

FORTUNATELY SUCH SUCH MEGA-VIOLENT CONTENT IS BANNED IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLICS.

Careful. Slower.

At the cost of its resell value. Condition: DEFILED.

The pads of your fingers itch.

Your part in this 'exchange' is done. The null entity had better have come through.

It'll be a relief to get out of this place.

Strong opening hook. Tonally ominous.

Roger Klaus Twitchitov, Director-General of the Operant Bureau from 58 until his untimely death in 87.

RUTHLESS CRITIQUE IS ONE THING, BUT THAT'S JUST UNCALLED FOR.

As for operant 'excommunications'... HOLOCENE is a case in point.

The text seems genuinely uncertain of what it is more interested in doing -- getting to the heart of the Opera's problems, or delivering the former director a literary pummelling.

Why would someone redact something they wrote... from themselves?

Your skin prickles, coursed by sudden static.

A sentence, unwritten yet palpable: 'I'd rather pick my own Freezer.'

It reads like he's mourning.

Eight hundred and sixty two.

Each page a wall of dense, precise text, locked in place with academic violence.

No need to spend your own money when you can simply borrow somebody else's.

Must have already been moved out of the cell, ready for the trade.

Wires travel from your ear to a million possibilities -- across Portofiro, further. A skein of electric devout in its connectivity.

Could be anyone about to pick up. A total stranger, their life intruded.

Your breathing is amplified by the transmitter held at your mouth.

In the background, the creak of wood, an aging door used only by the wind.

She'd only tell you to get on an aero-tram back home again.

You will need to remember this number. No need to make it difficult.

Sounds like a war fought with the sharp-end of noise.

You know this voice. It's the man at the top of the financial pile -- Mr. Reno himself.

We crave it! We want it!

Yet you can sense something leaking through the door seams. Unearthing. Contamination.

Humans dominate doors every day! Hurl this one back down the pecking order.

Our friend needs help -- kick the fucking thing down.

If this is the beginning... one must fear the end.

Or those meanings were embedded so deep that she failed to dig them out.

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