He had contemplated Pym in all the stages he had grown up with him, drunk with him and worked with him, including a night in Berlin he had totally forgotten until now when they had ended up screwing a couple of army nurses in adjoining rooms.

Z (zaa): a loose-tongued z; same as above.

Is Envy then such a monster? […] since its lodgement is in the heart not the brain, no degree of intellect supplies a guarantee against it.

i think you noncoders have got the wrong idea about eurodemos. most eurodemos are, i think, coded by coders to impress other coders. that is, while a noncoder just thinks a routine looks like shit a coder will be impressed if he haven't got a clue of how to make one like it himself.