Summary

Chapter 85 is a ConspiracyNet article sharing the news that Kirsch’s presentation would be aired at 3 a.m. in Barcelona.

In Chapter 86, Julían and Valdespino were directed to the underground church in the mountain. Julían was surprised to find his father sitting alone in his wheelchair.

In Chapter 87, above the door to Kirsch’s office was a saying by Winston Churchill: “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm” (573). Winston, who admitted he had been named after the statesman, said the inability to never give up was one of the best characteristics of computers. As they waited in Kirsch’s office for the time to make the presentation, Winston showed them the central workings of the E-Wave computer, which he compared to a human heart. He explained that Kirsch’s artificial intelligence was...