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office supply, she took some pages slightly longer and narrower than American pages.
    â€œSo are you like a recruiter?” Pip asked. “You travel with the questionnaire?”
    â€œYes, I have authority,” Annagret said. “Or not authority, we reject authority. I’m one of the people who do this for the group.”
    â€œIs that why you’re here in the States? Is this a recruiting trip?”
    â€œAnnagret is a multitasker ,” Martin said with a smile somehow both admiring and needling.
    Annagret told him to leave her and Pip alone, and he went off in the direction of the living room, apparently still serenely unaware that Dreyfuss didn’t like having him around. Pip took the opportunity to pour herself a second bowl of cereal; she was at least putting a check mark in the nourishment box.
    â€œMartin and I have a good relationship, except for his jealousy,” Annagret explained.
    â€œJealousy of what?” Pip said, eating. “Andreas Wolf?”
    Annagret shook her head. “I was very close with Andreas, for a long time, but that’s some years before I knew Martin.”
    â€œSo you were really young.”
    â€œMartin is jealous of my female friends. Nothing more threatens a German man, even a good man, than women being close friends with each other behind his back. It really upsets him, like it’s something wrong with how the world is supposed to be. Like we’re going to find out all his secrets and take away his power, or not need him anymore. Do you have this problem, too?”
    â€œI’m afraid I tend to be the jealous party.”
    â€œWell, this is why Martin is jealous of the Internet, because this is how I primarily communicate with my friends. I have so many friends I haven’t even met—real friends. Email, social media, forums. I know Martin sometimes watches pornography, we don’t have secrets from each other, and if he didn’t watch it he probably would be the only man in Germany who didn’t—I think Internet pornography was designed for German men, because they like to be alone and control things and have fantasies of power. But he says he only watches it because I have so many female Internet friends.”
    â€œWhich of course may just be porn for women,” Pip said.
    â€œNo. You only think that because you’re young and maybe don’t need friendship so much.”
    â€œSo do you ever think about just going with girls instead?”
    â€œIt’s pretty terrible right now in Germany with men and women,” Annagret said, which somehow amounted to a no.
    â€œI guess I was just trying to say that the Internet is good at satisfying needs from a distance. Male or female.”
    â€œBut women’s need for friendship is genuinely satisfied on the Internet, it’s not a fantasy. And because Andreas understands the power of the Internet, how much it can mean for women, Martin is jealous of him also—because of that , not because I was close with Andreas in the past.”
    â€œRight. But if Andreas is the charismatic leader, then he’s the guy with the power, which to me makes it sound like he’s just like all the other men, in your opinion.”
    Annagret shook her head. “The fantastic thing about Andreas is he knows the Internet is the greatest truth device ever. And what does it tell us? That everything in the society actually revolves about women, not men. The men are all looking at pictures of women, and the women are all communicating with other women.”
    â€œI think you’re forgetting about gay sex and pet videos,” Pip said. “But maybe we can do the questionnaire now? I’ve kind of got a boy upstairs waiting for me, which is why I’m kind of just wearing a bathrobe with nothing underneath it, in case you were wondering.”
    â€œRight now? Upstairs?” Annagret was alarmed.
    â€œI thought it was just going to be a quick