Don't know if diversion is any use but yesterday on the new Cornell University Library digital archive collection at archive.org/details/corn... I was able to download an old edition of Black's Law Dictionary & thence to learn that "Hookland" is a real word. Thank you for the word & for your work.

Little coin-operated dispensers where you bought kibble to offer to the goats?

I think a goat chewed up the right flap of my raincoat there a long time ago.

Was powerfully reminded of that story by the episode in Deep Space Nine with the parasitic muse who nearly consumes Jake Sisko.

Thx. Weirdass experience, though, to read it in 2025 and keep thinking, "2007."

While you're here though: help us remember where AI stood in 2007? If *The Gone-Away World* appeared now, the miscombined info taking literal shape would read as a metaphor for "AI slop" - but what led you to that then? And they remind me of the 2005 Doctor Who episode "The Empty Child" - any link?

Man hands on crockery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.