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competition. Simply work as fast as you can. Time is of the
essence."

McDoole nodded, and stepped out of the room, heading for his
stacks of printout at the end of the hall.

"Don't just sit there, boy," Rinhurst said. "Go read."

"Yes sir," I said, fumbling my way out of the chair and for
the door.

*

"Why'd you write this, anyway?" I asked the hologram.

"Hmm?" the hologram asked, breaking his hour-long state of
perfect stillness. "I don't know. Well, I mean I KNOW, but *I*
don't know. You know how it is. I wish I would have equipped me
with a better metaphor styler. This is the pits."

"Did you really bite the head off a rat at a Stomach
Contents concert?" I asked, tapping the text-filled screen.

"If it's in there, I did," Filbert said. "I don't remember
it as a recording, but yeah, I could see myself doing that. I'm
very spontaneous."

"Kinda like me," I said. "Well, kinda. I dig fun and
games, but really I've got plans. Long thought out plans."

"Really? Namely?"

"I'm gonna rock the software world. I got ideas, man, game
AND application ideas. Like William Doors, when Macroware was
originally founded. I just need to know how to code."

"Sounds okay, like it'll pull in the bills," Filbert said.

"Should."

"So you wanna be rich?"

"Yes. No," I said. "Actually, the money doesn't matter. I
just want a lot of people to use these programs I've got
speculated, you know? Make an IMPACT. Get some shock waves out
there in sales before kickin' off."

"If you can unlock this secret I've got, you could last a
long time indeed," Filbert said.