Hal supine, Pemulis wants to interface (pp. 906–907)

quote

I could see my asking him where he’d been all week leading to so many different possible responses and further questions that the prospect was almost overwhelming, so enervating I could barely get out that I’d just been lying here on the floor. […] He said ‘Thinking?’ ‘The opposite. Thought-prophylaxis.’

Context

Pemulis finally reappears — secretly three days expelled, urgently needing to tell Hal everything — and Hal can't even ask where he's been: the response-tree is too enormous to run. "Thought-prophylaxis" is Hal's own name for the shutdown.

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