If it helps, imagine that the contents of the Data Surge will help thwart an attack in which thousands of American lives would have been lost.
Another nod to the importance of this mission
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- Feb 2021
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Your physical person is our Black Box; without it, we have no record of what has happened on your mission.
Use of the title in the story
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Your new host lunging at you, shouting, “What the fuck are you doing?,” constitutes physical encroachment.
She is finally caught
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We finally get a better idea of what all this preparing has been for
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Avoid excessive self-reflection; your job is to look out, not in.
This essentially says that she isn't allowed the be a person according to the "instructions".
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Your job is proximity; if you are near your Designated Mate, recording his private speech, you are succeeding.
Every part of this so far seems very formulaic. There are "rules" so to speak on how to do everything, what to avoid, what to do, etc. It reminds me of a spy trying to infiltrate somewhere.
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- Jan 2021
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He was trying to get himself killed. The driver was blowing the horn and braking and the man wouldn’t give way. He just rode under the bus.
Throughout the story, I think this is the only example where someone didn't imply it wasn't the drivers fault.
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“Every family has only one son these days.”
Is this a reference to the one child policy in China?
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Onosmodium
Interesting to se the use of various latin words to describe symptoms or drugs used throughout the story.
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Everything is clear in the manual, direct unprejudiced language for invalids, the description of the symptoms: headache and great excitement, caused by the onset of sleep.
The manual seems to layout exactly how to do everything, as if a guiding light. It is referred to early in the story, but is finally described towards the end.
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mancuspias
this is a test
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