Chapter 51
My name is Hope.
I am the queen of the fucking universe.
I am the best thief ever to walk this fucking earth.
I am…
… I am fine.
I’m…
… fucking great, just, amazing, I’m…
… professional.
Disciplined.
A fucking fuck-you fuck it all fuck fucking machine.
Lines of code in a machine, in ascending order:
Least —
• Space shuttle
• Windows 3.1
• Mars Curiosity Rover
• Android operating system
• Windows 7
• Microsoft Office 2013
• Modern internal car software
— Most.
Data.
I sat on a bench, in a place, and stared into nothing.
I ate food.
I drank water.
I walked from a place to another.
Data only becomes information when it is translated.
I am
crying now
don’t know why.
This is the thing I am doing but it is not information.
On the high-speed train out of Tokyo, how did I come to be here?
I had bought a ticket in advance, an escape route, now I seem to be using it.
I put Byron14’s USB stick into my laptop, and had a look at what I had stolen.
Gobbledegook, unintelligible to anyone except an expert.
The base-code of Perfection.