"Welcome to the real world, they tell me. Life will never be the same again, it is alleged. Yes, Twitcher has acquired a computer Gone are the hand-tooled Thesauri and reference books, cast aside and banished to a dark, spidery corner. In their place sits the Machine, with its tangle of cables, its modems and printers, and its glowing, malevolent 'window'. Facing the Machine is a horrid little swivel-seat, and a keyboard with buttons of strange command: Pg Up, Ins, Esc and End. I press 'End' but unfortunately nothing happens."