A salient difference between cybertravel and forms of travel previously discussed is the disembodied nature of the cybertraveller.

If men have so many sleights to compass their matters, how can the compasser himself hold his fingers?

We didn't ask for rent, but we assumed they'd help around the house. But they don't do squat.

Those would be the bottles of unspoken water he had heard about, water taken from beneath a bridge over which the living walk and the dead are carried, brought to the house at twilight or dawn without the bringer ever saying a word ...