To be included on page fifteen, while Protag is in Madagascar. The editing… it’s coming along. -ed. ********************************************************************** We talked often, Luc and I. Mostly we talked about my computer. We taught it new tricks. We worked on the tricks I’d taught it. We participated in the wonderful bonding activity known as Fucking With Linux.… Read More Public Key: Linux explanation

The following is excerpted from Draft-The-Third of Public Key. At the moment it falls on page 125 (of 171). I am considering moving it much earlier. We shall see. EDIT: It now falls on page 5. I am considering moving it later. We shall see! ************************************************ My life changed very little. Oakley was right on… Read More Public Key: A Freetard’s Apology

Dramatis Personae Protag Luc – his best friend in Montreal Rana – his landlady in Tana City Oakley – his landlord in Makaoteng Arabang – a girl from Ha Koniki Hannah – a girl with a backpack Tiisetso – a woodworker and grow-partner in Moteetee Lebohang – a guy at the general store in Mokhotlong… Read More Dramatis Personae: Public Key

We waited for three days. I was nervous. But not afraid. Mostly I felt eager, to get home, to get on with it, to get on with my life. Things weren’t over yet. In some ways, they were just beginning. The Quebecois government agreed to lift the reward offer on my capture. People who had… Read More Public Key (fin)

There were no more messages left. The ball was in their court. I lay in bed with Hannah and watched my fate get decided. The government in Quebec was in an impossible situation. So every commentator said, over and over again. They could either go ‘soft’ on me, and bring me home, and alienate their… Read More Public Key (cvii)

The Americans were under great pressure to make a statement. They didn’t. The Canadians decided that silence didn’t become them. A member of the Assemblée Nationale, part of the governing party, a white-haired old fellow with big glasses and a big bark, made a fiery speech full of hellfire and damnation all of which was… Read More Public Key (cvi)

Midday the next day I went to YouTube. I just wanted to make sure that my video had gone up, and stayed up. It wasn’t hard to find. There it was, there for all to see. And a few million people had seen it. Isn’t the internet grand? People were talking about me. They’d done… Read More Public Key (cv)

  It was fascinating to watch it. Fascinating and surreal. I was afraid it would stoke my vanity to see my name in such big letters, to see My Face getting such attention. It did a little. Mostly it just made me conscious of how far away I was from the stir I was making.… Read More Public Key (civ)

It is possible that I am being, ah, overly thorough, with some of my recitations of Their Plan. I’ll go back, afterwards, and make sure its a little more chronolinear, and certainly that it is tighter. For the moment I am just trying to get the draft done. But don’t worry. Soon it will all… Read More Public Key (ciii)

It was all part of the plan. As I had walked off the edge of the world, Hannah had gone down to the A14 and stuck out her thumb She made it up to Maputsoe before moonrise and she crossed into South Africa without much trouble. Apparently they gave her a hard time about her… Read More Public Key (cii)