It was a dizzy feeling, reeling through the air with it rushing across his bare skin, pulling at the little hairs on his chest, arms and legs. He was eye-level with the sea gulls and pigeons, sharing their element, scaring them off the ledges of the tower and sending them squawking away. He flew several times around the tower, seeing shocked faces pressed up against tinted windows, before he turned on a wing and soared off across town…

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Laura was an IBM but a newer, more modular design — her parts were incompatible. The other girls were all Mitsubishi, Panasonic, or Intel. Completely different inside and out.

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“Sir Oscar Wilde said, ‘History is merely gossip.’” Kafka took a step toward the student who spoke, pointing the stick right at him. “Precisely!”

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“In your own handwriting, justify your existence in 500 words or less.”

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“Don’t look at this negatively,” the man told him. “You’re on the brink of your greatest experience. In a few minutes the pain will be gone and you’ll see what it’s like on the Other Side.”

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