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8672155 Part 2

Safe in my transport, safe in my home, safe in my Harper suit, I could travel the city, or anywhere, 99% sure of being anonymous to surveillance. Only a court ordered “tap”, under the conditions of the 2085 “Electronic Surviellance Act” as decided by the same year’s Supreme Court decision could be used to even “observe” the general mathematical equations exhibited by the Harper Field. I felt secure, and breathed in assurance, but as always I was uneasy.

“This general malaise” as the late Gore Vidal had written, (though it was seriously believed he’d been at least “encoded”, if not “preserved” for future revivication), seems to “infect society at all levels”. Though, to be accurate, society has never been without “malaise”. Humanity itself it most likely an affliction, too intelligent to “live on the terms of nature” or “with nature”, we by virtue of “most sentient” change our envoirment, unlike say, a mouse, who just copes with nature or what at least is presented to it as “natural order”.

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