‘But if you think you can get it, Christian, you're a fool. Set one foot upcountry and I'll kill you.’

All the classes he takes are basketweaving.

Although non-destructive reads are theoretically possible with FeRAM, the process - requiring illumination of the memory cells with UV light - is completely impractical for most purposes, favoring the more-practical (but destructive) method of forcing every cell to 0, seeing which cells produced a tiny current pulse, and writing back 1s to those cells.

He would come over to my office at least once a week and explode because somebody had been after him. And I would scrape him off the ceiling and send him back until the next week.