One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free frominterruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction andinterruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing"[…]and so on.
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