Calculating machine
Artefact
Grubby desiccated machine in Roger Buggery’s former-toilet office. It winks; Roger winks back; commerce occurs.
Appears in
- Helix Folt, the Conservative chapters:
From the books (1 passage)
…here is disclosed, upon a nasty little veneered table and surfaced in tarnished polymer, a grubby and desiccated calculating machine. This vey promptly emerges from its slumbers and sets to a nasty winking at Mr Roger Buggery. Mr Roger Buggery, after first removing his trousers and placing them over the back of the high-backed chair occupying the space vacated by the throne of easement, seats himself and sets to a…