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The headline writes itself.

Chiamaka, a South African buffalo, bags a bull human on safari.

Jason Bourne's name carved under a bunk bed

The drone that killed Outcome #3 and is hunting down Aaron Cross.

Aaron Cross releases a wolf that he trapped and then shoved his transponder down the wolf's throat so that the next drone will target the wolf. Aaron says to the "Should have left me alone" and then runs.

Now Aaron gets to hike his way out of the ass-end of Alaska.

"Outcome #3," portrayed by Oscar Isaac, holding a hunting rifle with a scope on a snowy, tree-lined ridge.

Aaron Cross, portrayed by Jeremy Renner, speaking with Outcome #3. He is wearing a red parka and is not holding a gun.

OUTCOME #3: I wasn't expecting you so soon. What'd you do? You come over the mountain?
AARON CROSS: Don't they forward my position?
O: You beat the record by 2 days.
A: Yeah?
O: Didn't know about the record?
A: Never came up. Was it YOUR record?
O: No one comes over the mountain
A: Well, I did.

I LIKED NOT-EXERCISING-EVER SO MUCH, I BOUGHT THE COMPANY!

Right. Some people say they read Baroque Cycle first. A re-read of Cryptonomicon afterward will reward you with a number of Easter eggs. Stephenson had planned a lot of the Baroque Cycle before Cryptonomicon went to the printer, so he had the chance to backload some very specific BC lore.

Have you read Cryptonomicon?

is this a request?

#Agency is basically a single-take film in novel form.

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

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EUNICE: There’s somewhere I need [Verity] to be seen, in order for somebody to have the time to finish doing something somewhere else. That means getting out of here unobserved, to somewhere we won’t be seen transferring to a car I’ll send.

EUNICE: You called it when you said it’s a ghost story. When he runs down those docs for you, I think you’ll see I just saved a bunch of your bacon.
STETS: Thank you, assuming this is all true, Verity’s story & now this. Which I now effectively do. Where do we go from here?
#Agency
William Gibson

Turn around bright eyes.
Slowly.

Does the left want to be able to fire journalists, too?

Get better.

RUFUS: Well, you got to go back to times before the Civil War, when Texas was young. Alamo times. Moby-Dick times. Regular Army couldn’t even come close to dealing with the Comanches. So they started the Texas Rangers. Most of ’em just got killed. Old man Darwin having his way.
#TerminationShock

In line at Starbucks.
PHIL: What are you? Not just some regular Joe, apparently.
[Sophia gave Phil side-eye.]
ENOCH (amused) It’s perfectly all right! One so rarely gets a direct question. As far as I can make out, I am an emissary of sorts from another plane of existence.

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We're spraying him for space germs.

We few, we happy few!

Oh good, the truck made it back home.

That's how Dodge in Reamde and Fall got that nickname. His friends thought his face looked like the tailgate of a Dodge pickup.

This 1970s Dodge 350? truck spent a long time rusting in a meadow before the Rootlet bought it and began to replace everything inside it but the engine block. (I basically know how to check the oil.)

OK, folks. Pick a card, any card.