Chapter 15 - It gets real. Juula, an Estonian girl visits Del at the ICU - Text Editing will soon take a quantum leap forward

THE STORY OF DEL - Delete

Del came back to his senses chastising himself. Lucidity, lucidity at all costs! Machines don't beg doctors to kill patients! Lucidity, damn it!!!

How is lucidity obtained when in a coma? he wondered. And as always, because of his experience, the answer came instantaneously: prayer. He mumbled a Rosary.

And in the middle of a Glory Be, out of the blue but with poignant clarity, he remembered a moment well after he had been banished from the keyboards, but shortly before the 'additives' - the damned drugs - had lost their magic. He had met a marvelous Estonian girl, marvelous because she was so pure and clean and straight and unsullied by drugs or cynicism or attitudes. Juula was fresh and had honest twinkles in her eyes. Del had been entranced. But after all the bad living he'd been through (with the worst yet to come) for all he was bedazzled, he had refrained from courting her because for the first time in his life, he knew with 'tragic' certainty that he was unworthy, that he would only bring her harm. He was like a muddy galosh in a clean room.

He should've followed up on that sentiment and cleaned up his act, but he felt ashamed in her presence and after catching himself leering at her like the dirty old man on the cover of Jethro Tull's Aqualung album, he nosedived.

And from recreational use, the drugs turned serious. Yes, that's when the silly giggles turned to cold sneers. Juula, that paragon of beauty and desirability had unwittingly slung him into a state of 'what's-the-use' - also known as 'the waiting room to hell.'

Whoa! Wait, wait, wait a minute here! Just a frigging minute!! What did Juula have to do with anything? Why was she back in his life? Had his prayer backfired? Was he on some sort of guilt trip? Guilt for what? He hadn't touched her! In the end, Del could only sweeten his countenance with a wan smile and helplessly murmur "whatever..."

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Chapter 29 - Imagine editing faster on an iPad Mini than a computer! Voilà

THE STORY OF DEL - Delete Good morning, Del! Good morning to you, my beautiful Juula! What's the matter, you look sad. No, I'm impatient. I want a sneak peak at some of the things that connective editing can do. Before the bla-bla-bla explanations? Yeah... just like that. Are you afraid they're gonna pull the plug and put me out of my misery? Stop it, Del, please! I'm sorry. All right here's a quick and dirty demo. But then we'll do it right, we'll explain it calmly, all right? I promise!

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THE STORY OF DEL - Delete Guten morgen, Schatz! Danke, meine Liebe! What have you got for me today? Well, I wanted to show you how one single Connective Editing button obeying a simple instruction, has got all the other editing apps for handhelds beat - and as a matter of fact it's even snappier than what's normal on a regular sit-on-your butt computer. Wow... I'm all in. Actually, you ARE! Because this new single instruction will be the new DEL. And any app would be foolish to ignore the wonderful ease and power it offers. But then... But then... ? I want to be on a keyboard too! You do? Yes, I want to marry you and live on an extra keyboard row with you. Have you been smoking something, Juula? Absolutely not. I never do that stuff. Right, sorry... I didn't mean it that way. I want to join you and be a second button that completes the new DEL. Then if we have children, the DEL and JUULA family can revolutionize editing. I love it. I know it soun

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THE STORY OF DEL - Delete "Hi Del, are you ready for more exciting adventures in text editing?" "You are the sunshine of my life!" "I'll take that to mean yes. Yesterday you said something spot on!" "I did?" "Yes sir... You said: "We humans end the selection where we do to CONNECT to the sense of what is being written." Absolutely true! Sometimes the words even seem to call each other: Merry splinter Kleenex guardrail whippersnapper tear Boeing shoebox Christmas "Thinking things through last night I discovered how Bill Dust-in-the-Sky Gates put a whammy on text editing. To be polite I called it the 'Microsoft Anomaly'. Are you ready for it?" "Fire away!" The Microsoft Anomaly God is in the details (And so is Bill Gates) Why does one go through the trouble of highlighting text? Principally for 4 reasons (of course I'm generalizing). 1. To format - that is, to prettify deservi

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