Dr. X's real name was a sequence of shushing noises, disembodied metallic buzzes, unearthly quasi-Germanic vowels, and half-swallowed R's, invariably mangled by Westerners.
—Neal Stephenson, American writer, The Diamond Age, 1995

Posted on July 28, 2000 at 7:27 AM

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