No. No games. He wanted her and didn't care who knew it. He definitely and absolutely wanted her, longed for her, wanted to do more things than there were names for with her.

Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'

After a while he played with the pencil and the paper again and was delighted when he discovered how to make a mark with the one on the other. Various noises continued outside, but he didn't know whether they were real or not. He then talked to his table for a week to see how it would react.

Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.

The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.

A beach house isn't just real estate. It's a state of mind.