Word: staffroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harry is soon roaming the streets of Los Angeles, with his next fit due within six hours. Now--while the police are busy bunting Benson and Janet is sipping coffee in the staffroom--is the time for some exposition. The book contains an ample number of thoughtful, "relevant" digressions: an aside about the Los Angeles's "indigenous depersonalization syndrome" (p. 138), an interview with a potential "pleasure-addict" who wants to have the pleasure centers of his brain wired for continual stimulation (pages 82 to 84), and references throughout to the ascendancy of the machine. We are treated...
...hand in my ticket and get my locker key I'd have to go in search of one of these women; they were forever making and drinking cups of tea. One of the boys would move his head an inch or two in the direction of the staffroom and sing out, "Bridget, finish your...