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« -Well, senior agent Gloria Lopez, to tell you the truth, protocol 42 is... how to formulate it... Adrian Miller drinks a new sip of water, the words don't come to him. He can't tell them it's just a nasty math joke that has already cost the taxpayer half a million dollars, just counting the 20 years the state paid two pranksters to carry armoured cell phones that should never have run. »
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« - Do you think we're all in a simulation? - I don't know. To paraphrase Woody Allen, I would say that if that's the case, I hope the programmer has an excuse. Because the world they created is still quite a horror. Although, from what I understand, it is precisely we who create it on our own. »
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The anomaly
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« Yes, Eko Atlantic, this artificial island conquered on the ocean, is an abomination. It is still a huge wasteland, but two hundred thousand hyper-rich Lagos will take refuge in its glittering skyscrapers, protected from the violence of the megacity by bridges guarded by armed guards. In this castle, they will have their power plant, their sewage treatment plant, their restaurants, their palaces, their swimming pools, their marina to moor their yachts... page (91) »
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