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• On his was back to the lobby, his cigarettes forgotten, he had to walk the length of the ranked phones.
  Each rang in turn, but only once, as he passed. -- William Gibson, Neuromance...
• Armitage crossed stiffly to the table and took three fat bundles of New Yen from the pockets of his trenchcoat.
  You want to count it? he asked Yonderboy. No, the Panther Modern said....
• Parked his head and forgot where he left it.
• He's a few cards short of a deck.
• He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
• What is it that He who buys it does not use it He who makes it does not use it He who uses it, does not see or feel it?
  [A coffin]...
• I think he's playing solitaire with a pinochle deck.
• You are the only person in this building who knows what he's doing.
  .. -- Toilet graffiti in government building...