Source: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 2 (“Troubadour”), p. 41
“The game went on. John had understood nothing. Everything was too fast: the game, the other's talk, the goings-on in the street…”
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Sten Nadolny
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The Discovery of Slowness
p, 125
The Discovery of Slowness (1983, 1987)
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