dead language
- So, it's time for a new game to fend off boredom. Marty invents a game called "Struggle of the Dying Warrior," which involveshim strapping himself to the hospital bed, and trying to then get up and walk. It's not working out very well for him.
- Titus and Violet exchange information about their families. Titus's dad works in banking, and his mom works in design. Violet's dad is a professor, and teaches "dead languages," here meaning dead computer languages like BASIC and FORTRAN.
- Violet demonstrates one of these languages by showing Titus a brief computer program in BASIC for "I came, I saw, I conquered."
- Watching Violet write this down, Titus seems amazed that she writes a lot.
- Violet admits that she likes to write the old-fashioned way (instead of using the feed for everything) because she's pretentious (16.34).
- Turns out Violet's dad really wasn't just busy. There's another reason why he couldn't come to the moon.