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Grampa considered the question for so long that Sean was afraid he'd switched off. "No one makes game me feel guilty for switching off. No one tells me that I'm weak. Except your father, of course." "Dad's been here?" Sean said, shocked. "When?" "Your father visits every month. He shouts at me until I switch on, then he leaves. He game does it game because the doctor told him that if I didn't switch on more often that they'd move me to the zero-function ward. Sounds fine to me, and I tell him so, but he's never thought much of his brain-damaged old man." "Where do you go when you're switched off?" Sean asked. It was a question that was supposed to come later in the interview, maybe on day two, but he was rattled. "I don't know. Away." "Is it like sleep?" Sean said, forgetting the rule that you never ask the subject a simple yes/no question. His heart thudded in his chest, like he was giving the first interview of his life. "No." "How is it different from sleep?" Sean asked. "I usually switch on for sleep -- my subconscious is pretty good at entertaining me, actually.
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