Word: throated
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...pawing through one of these racks when I sense another avatar, something big and shaggy, sidling up next to me. It mumbles something; I ignore it. A magisterial throat-clearing noise rumbles in the subwoofer, crackles in the surround speakers, punches through cleanly on the center channel above the screen. I turn and look: it's a heavy-set creature wearing a T shirt emblazoned with a logo HACKERS 1111. It has very long scythe-like claws, which it uses to grip a hot-pink cylinder. It's much better drawn than Raster; almost Disney- quality...
Scribble, the narrator, and his gang of no-goods are seriously messing with "vurt," or virtual reality. Hallucinatory interactive dramas are encoded in synthetic feathers, and a person can waft away from everyday life by brushing the back of his throat with a feather tip. Fantasies range from harmless, biff-bam adventures through warm-and-fuzzy childhood memories, to varieties of porn, and on to malign alternate worlds that appear to be not just virtual but actual, and that permanently suck in vurt addicts...
Creative writing programs came into being to support a burgeoning coterie of talented writers who could not all make it in the cut-throat world of word-production. The university has become the de facto patron of the fine arts for a new generation of writers and poets. The situation is first and foremost a sad one--sad, because some of our best writers have to teach courses in creative writing in order to make ends meet...
...third set resembled the first set at the outset. Harvard, serving first, used its superior athletic ability to repeatedly spike the ball down Dartmouth's throat...
From there it was a matter of improvisation--persuading someone to drive them toward Kobe, then stopping at the suburb of Nishinomiya, where damage was appalling. In Kobe, Kunii had to cover neighborhoods on foot, masking her mouth from smoke and fumes that burned the throat. One night she took shelter on the concrete floor of a school when the temperature was below freezing. Finally she was able to borrow a bicycle. The owner's stipulation: it must eventually be passed on to another needy person. When she left for Tokyo, Kunii bequeathed it to an arriving German correspondent, wishing...