Consuming and fragmenting people and things
Clive Gamble · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2007
Fragmentation : Refers to the condition of a disk in which files are divided into pieces scattered around the disk. Fragmentation occurs naturally when you use a disk frequently, creating, deleting, and modifying files. At some point, the operating system needs to store parts of a file in noncontiguous clusters. This is entirely invisible to users, but it can slow down the speed at which data are accessed because the disk drive must search through different parts of the disk to put together a single file. Webopedia 2005 ‘I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.’ Imelda Marcos 1987 Musical chairs The singing began at sunset, the dancing a little later. The women, some with their children, gathered in the large open space surrounded by the small, round huts of the village. A fire was lit and the dogs shooed away. They sang in high rhythmical voices, the clicks of their language now drowned by the clapping of their hands. Four men danced around the women and their fire. They wore rattles on their legs and as they stamped out their dance they struck percussion sticks together and answered the women's song. After a while the oldest dancer grew tired, his rheumatism hobbling his steps. There would be no shaman's trance tonight. He moved towards the fire, broke the circle, and the performance was over.