He gave a sharp bark of laughter. "Hell, you’re more than alive , Laura. You’re goddamn famous. The whole world knows. It’s a fucking scandal, a soap opera. We don’t ‘live in the world’—the world lives in us now. We went out to fight for the Net and the Net just stretched us to pieces. Not our fault—oh hell no! All the fucking money and politics and multinationals just grabbed us and pulled us apart!"