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Tortoise: No. The System crashed. Achilles: What does that mean? Tortoise: It means that you and I, Achilles, were suddenly and instantaneously transported to Tumbolia. Achilles: To where? Tortoise: Tumbolia: the land of dead hiccups and extinguished light bulbs. It's a sort of waiting room, where dormant software waits for its host hardware to come back up. No telling how long the System was down, and we were in Tumbolia. It could have been moments, hours, days-even years. |