"And we get the blame for it," said Elaine. "You going out later?"
"No," said Wallet. "Got things to do."
"You should get out more. You'll get stiff cooped up in here all day."
"I already am stiff," said Wallet going back to his room. "I'm dead remember."
Elaine watched him go. "So, get over it."
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Wallet turned on his laptop, activated his anonymising software and surfed to the BBC's site and continued watching the programme on iPlayer. He split the screen to search the net for anything he could find on Terence Pearl. As his ears listened to the debate criss crossing the decades he found numerous pages reproducing Pearl's deranged essays. His personal site was littered with animated gifs, advertisements for his own books, most of them ebooks, and an endless list of subjects ranging from Black Death being a 14th century form of germ warfare to the Hindenburg tragedy being carried out by a prototype CIA with a Bolshevik agenda. Pearl was unconcerned with the usual anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and a lot of his essays were apparently written within a few weeks of each other: between April 19th and June 4th Pearl had penned twenty six articles, four of them about Toten Herzen and vampires.