* * * * *

After that, John McEnroe's jackal exorcised Little Orphan Annie, then haunted
 himself. Poor John McEnroe! But what would you expect from a tennis-player?

My friend Sean Hoade [1] is fascinated by _The Psychotherapy of Racter_ [2]
and is urging me to finish the project. Wow … okay then. I worked a bit on it
today, reworking things so that there's a program brokering the responses
between Racter and Eliza [3] and Racter [4] (or rather, the version of Racter
I'm using [5]) keeps quiting. Technically, it's calling INT 20H [6] which
causes an MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) [7] program to exit back
to MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System), and I have no idea why. I mean,
I only wrote a bailing-wire-and-chewing-gum MS-DOS emulator—that can't
possibly be the problem.

Ah well … back to the psychotherapy of Racter …

[1] http://seanhoade.com/
[2] https://github.com/spc476/NaNoGenMo-2015
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/12/13.1
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racter
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/11/16.1
[6] http://www.ousob.com/ng/asm/ng638ff.php
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS

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