Hal in V.R. 6 with Wave Bye-Bye — "It’s no accident that in a…"

quote

It’s no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called ‘termination,’ as in ontological erasure, and the bureaucrat leaves his supervisor’s cubicle duly shaken.

Context

From Hal's summary of Wave Bye-Bye to the Bureaucrat: "ontological erasure" is this scene's dialect of the map-elimination idiom — annihilation of being dressed up as personnel action — minted here so that p. 689 can hand it to Hal personally.

Quoted from

Scene 132: hal vr6 wave bye bye

In anthology

Depression and Anhedoniatexture