Somehow all she can do is flit past options she knows she doesn't want, knowing the whole time there won't In Our World, All The Sentiments And Expressions Of Humanity, From The Debasing To The Angelic, Are Parts Of A Seamless Whole, The Global Conversation Of Bits. We Cannot Separate The Air That Chokes From The Air Upon Which Wings Beat. be anything she might remotely want to see for another 30 or 40 minutes, too far into the night to wait for. She comes to the preview channel and stares at the syncopated scroll, thinking for the nineteenth time about the mileage on her car, the A NEW KIND OF SOCIETY CANNOT BE DESIGNED ON PAPER. THAT IS, YOU CANNOT PLAN OUT A NEW FORM OF SOCIETY IN ADVANCE, THEN SET IT UP AND EXPECT IT TO FUNCTION AS IT WAS DESIGNED TO. cost of insurance, her father's funeral, and what it will be like to die childless. Her finger twitches. TV THAT MAKES YOU WANT TO WATCH TELEVISION: METRO'S 44. "Oh ick," says Lorraine. To which Harry says, "Hm?" "I hate this." DENNIS DI MANES, MAJ. USMC (RET.) Oh he still likes to buzz the burbies, streaking through a few dozen backyards that might have been his own, recalling that funloving kid he used to be. Jeepers Mr. Wilson, was that your propane tank? But with the new hardware it's just... not the same. The Q-ship is fast enough, if hardly a speedgod. The ground-following lidar is real spiffy, so is the inertial decoupling that lets four tons of aircraft make like a bumblebee. You can do amazing things, whizzing to an abrupt halt 50 feet off the deck, right in the convection draft from some yupper's gas grille. But then you're on your way again and what's Mr. Matchlite saying? No, that was the old days. Sigh. Lately it's more like: Yeah, well. That's your Stealth-Vee, thank you very much.