Word: plugging
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Pull the plug and you will blow their minds. They have devoured all the words and come to the final conclusion for the night. And they will hunt out more the next day, scouring the grainy photographs, the over-reactions, the ultimate threat, the burning of people who want to know the true reason, who want to see past the satellite. They plug in at night for final treatment, and Frank Reynolds will suckle them, and show them that everybody in the world hates the U.S.A...
...head is down on the keyboard waiting for the half-hearted cheer and agitated, pathetic energy that greets The Machine's rebirth. A terminal watcher walks by and says 'I think we have a casualty," and I wonder he is referring to me or the terminal, whose plug I just undid when I crossed my legs. I make a mental note never to do that again in the computer's presence...