Hal supine, Pemulis wants to interface (p. 908)

quote

I farted, but it didn’t produce a noise. I was bored. I couldn’t remember a time when Pemulis had bored me.

Context

Mid-negotiation over the DMZ and the thirty-day clean-urine pact — stakes about as high as Hal's world holds — and the interior readout is this. The most reliably entertaining person in Hal's life has gone gray along with everything else.

Quoted from

Scene 172: hal supine pemulis interface

In anthology

Depression and Anhedoniasupporting