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Michael Mirolla. Berlin

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a novel

Michael Mirolla

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Ryle put in a call to another of his patients, the facility’s resident computer whiz. The whiz had been invited to spend some time at the hospital after insisting that his programming was all wrong and that he needed new wiring (which he tried to install himself by plugging into the nearest electrical socket). The word was that if he couldn’t decode a computer program or get a machine to work properly then you’d better go directly to the maker himself (the Prime Digitalizer, that is).

After half an hour, the whiz leaned back and declared: “There’s nothin’ in here. No hidden files, that’s for sure. My guess is that, if there was anything here in the first place, your friend erased it all.” “What!” Ryle exclaimed. “Shit! Now, why would he go and do that?” The whiz was about to say something else when Ryle waved his hand: “Never mind. It was a rhetorical question.”

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