Summary

In “Rhyme Scheme,” Lincoln was so in love with M, he had become obsessed with calculating their chances of being together. He developed an experiment to test her interest in him. Lincoln grew discouraged when he discovered M had begun dating Marc. He remembered the list his sister Alison had made of his attributes. He thought most of the nice things she had listed about him were relative.

At Harvest, Lincoln’s job was to find proxies, “orchestrated by Mondrian, a not-for-profit based in San Francisco” (79). Mondrian’s proxies maintained “the established patterns of an individual’s online activity,” to let them disappear (79). The proxies protected individuals’ privacy. Companies like Mondrian were a reaction to Mandala. One day, Lincoln’s team learned that someone inside Harvest was “working to help the eluders” (81). Lincoln suspected Marc.

After the meeting...