# Quote — Neal Stephenson, Reamde

> None of Seamus’ crew gave her more than a glance and a nod. They were intensely focused on their laptops: some sort of pitched battle.
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> “Fuckers are trying to flank us on the left!”
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> “Disengaging from the Witch King and pivoting to get your back.”
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> …Fierce clicking and typing, punctuated by roaring, anguished laughter, as (Olivia guessed) each man’s character died in the game world.
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> Planted around the dining area were plastic dolls: troll- or elf-like fantasy characters…Marked on the underside of each was the logo of Corporation 9592.
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> So that answered the question she’d been afraid to ask, for fear of seeming like the stupidest person in the whole world: Are you playing T’Rain?

- Author: [Neal Stephenson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson.md)
- Book: [Reamde](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson/reamde.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Reamde#Day_15) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson/reamde/none-of-seamus

## More from this book

> “I’m sorry I touched your doll,” Olivia said. “I had no idea how important Thorakks was to you.”
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> Silence, as none of the men knew how to cope with her tactical use of the word “doll.”
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> “Wow, how do you rate having a doll made of your personal character?”
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> “It’s called an action figure.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson/reamde/im-sorry-i-touched.md)

> “I notice you’re not referring to him as ‘the little fucker’ anymore,” said Corvallis.
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> “Okay, okay, he stopped being a little fucker when he raised an army of twelve hundred high-level characters and deployed them in battle array around his projected route of advance,” Richard admitted. “I have to admit I was wondering why he was taking so long to move away from that cave. I didn’t reckon that he was going to set the whole thing up like Sherman’s march to the sea.”
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> “Did you notice his leapfrogging cavalry screens?”
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> “Yes, I fucking noticed them.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson/reamde/i-notice-youre.md)

> He had found an image of one of the big Western-style business hotels along the waterfront: one of those places where it was possible to be a white person without attracting one’s own personal Stonehenge of cataleptic, openmouthed gapers.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson/reamde/he-had-found.md)