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The attaché receives the cartridge (p. 34)

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the medical attaché is permitted to ease effortlessly from unwound spectation into a fully relaxed night's sleep, still right there in the recumbent recliner, the TP set to run a recursive loop of low-volume surf and light rain on broad green leaves.

Context

Before the samizdat ever arrives: the attaché's nightly ritual already ends inside a literal "recursive loop" cartridge — surf and rain, repeating till morning. The man the Entertainment will trap forever has been sleeping inside a benign rehearsal of his fate every night.

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