The Long Result
“It was an honest error due to an ambiguity in the verbal definition the Viridians themselves had sent us.
So I buckled to and rewrote the offending section; then I had to revise every single reference to it in a fat volume of general instructions to emigrant personnel selectors, and by the time I’d done that the noon recess was over and I’d missed my usual lunchtime.
I yawned, sent the revised material for computer checking and printing, and set off for the canteen across the street. I didn’t e...xpect to find anyone I knew there – it was after fourteen by now – and by a wide margin the last person of all I imagined I’d run into was Micky, simultaneously spooning up soup and making notes on a document full of complex equations.
I said hullo, and he raised his pale face to me. Enormous dark rings had developed under his eyes.
‘Micky, you look ghastly!’ I exclaimed. ‘You can’t have had any sleep since you got here!’ He stretched, pushed aside his papers and gestured for me to join him at the table.MoreLess
So I buckled to and rewrote the offending section; then I had to revise every single reference to it in a fat volume of general instructions to emigrant personnel selectors, and by the time I’d done that the noon recess was over and I’d missed my usual lunchtime.
I yawned, sent the revised material for computer checking and printing, and set off for the canteen across the street. I didn’t e...xpect to find anyone I knew there – it was after fourteen by now – and by a wide margin the last person of all I imagined I’d run into was Micky, simultaneously spooning up soup and making notes on a document full of complex equations.
I said hullo, and he raised his pale face to me. Enormous dark rings had developed under his eyes.
‘Micky, you look ghastly!’ I exclaimed. ‘You can’t have had any sleep since you got here!’ He stretched, pushed aside his papers and gestured for me to join him at the table.MoreLess
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