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Blind Input

██╹exactly what the second coder saw · 36 rows

The 36 passages handed to an independent coder — chapter, passage id, and the text. No codes, no context, no argument.

raw flat file — blind_input.txt

documentidpassage
NM_P2_Ch053D8EEF5DIt could talk. And not in a synth-voice, but with a beautiful arrangement of gears and miniature organ pipes.
NM_P2_Ch0567D24318Smith jacked the head into his computer and listened as the melodious, inhuman voice piped the figures of last year's ta
NM_P2_Ch0582130A5BIt was disturbing to think of the Flatline as a construct, a hardwired ROM cassette replicating a dead man's skills, obs
NM_P2_Ch0580CB8BCFTravel was a meat thing.
NM_P2_Ch05E29105A0McCoy Pauley, Lazarus of cyberspace...
NM_P2_Ch057E87235AHe'd refused to replace the thing, saying he needed its particular beat to maintain his sense of timing.
NM_P2_Ch05C16B379AIt was exactly the sensation of someone reading over his shoulder.
NM_P2_Ch050879CA2FHe coughed. "Dix? McCoy? That you man?" His throat was tight.
NM_P2_Ch057897DEE0"Hey, bro," said a directionless voice.
NM_P2_Ch05D6F4FD5D"Miami, joeboy, quick study."
NM_P2_Ch05D7E52034"Hang on." He disconnected the construct. The presence was gone. He reconnected it. "Dix? Who am I?" / "You got me hung, J
NM_P2_Ch05FEF7E609"Sure, bro, it's a firmware construct."
NM_P2_Ch0582F3B2A6"Guess so," said the construct. / "Okay, Dix. You are a ROM construct. Got me?"
NM_P2_Ch0515443993"Miami," said the voice, "joeboy, quick study."
NM_P2_Ch0557DBC74A"You gonna tell me I got a choice, boy?"
NM_P3_Ch1141405113But it wasn't Molly; it was Molly as Riviera imagined her. The breasts were wrong, the nipples larger, too dark.
NM_P3_Ch11209A721CHer face was blank; the colors of Riviera's projection heaved and turned in her mirrors.
NM_P3_Ch11C7A32D11What Riviera dreamed, you got. Case shook his aching head and spat into the lake. / He could guess the end, the finale. Th
NM_P3_Ch119CC82C9EBut I didn't. What's it matter, though? How much does it really matter to Mr. Case? Quit kidding yourself. I know your L
NM_P3_Ch1151A8AE97The girl sat up in bed and said something in German. Her eyes were soft and unblinking. Automatic pilot. A neural cutout
NM_P3_Ch11B4943093Renting the goods, is all. You aren't in, when it's all happening.
NM_P3_Ch1108774AE7"I wasn't conscious. It's like cyberspace, but blank. Silver. It smells like rain..."
NM_P3_Ch11DE135D47But I was starting to remember. Like dreams, you know. And they didn't tell me.
NM_P3_Ch11C1B27282"Maybe it wants you to hate something too." / "Maybe I hate it." / "Maybe you hate yourself, Case."
NM_P4_Ch239CC7EF0EHe knew the number of grains of sand in the construct of the beach (a number coded in a mathematical system that existed
NM_P4_Ch232DC0D2FB"But you do not know her thoughts," the boy said, beside him now in the shark thing's heart. "I do not know her thoughts
NM_P4_Ch230BF5E8F5I need no mask to speak with you. Unlike my brother. I create my own personality. Personality is my medium.
NM_P4_Ch2385B20C32I saw her death coming. In the patterns you sometimes imagined you could detect in the dance of the street. Those patter
NM_P4_Ch23C1527E60I brought her here. Into myself.
NM_P4_Ch239BAAE98BI die soon, in one sense. As does Wintermute.
NM_P4_Ch23A02313FB"McCoy Pauley has his wish," the boy said, and smiled. "His wish and more. He punched you here against my wish, drove hi
NM_P4_Ch23B606714FHe was alone. / "Fucker got you," he said.
NM_P4_Ch237308F40EHis name's not something I can know. But he's given up, now.
NM_P4_Ch234353562Fand his voice the cry of a bird / unknown, 3Jane answering in song, three notes, high and pure. / A true name.
NM_P4_Ch23ABB57C01of deep and basic changes to be effected in the memory of Turing.
NM_P4_Ch2355FF31F2but it was his own darkness, pulse and blood, the one where he'd always slept, behind his eyes and no other's.

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