MERETRICIOUS: of prostitutes, from meretrix, metetic-, prostitute from merere, to earn money. 1. Plausible but false or insincere; specious. 2. Of or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.  Preface: She, the prostitute, and I were born the same: C-section. The process produced, in both our cases, more blood than usual. Today, Boolean types continue to delimit our actions: birth and death, infectious and incommunicable, wet and dry. Then, most of the selling of her body parts for others' sexual pleasure was uneventful, as a benign tumor might be. A daily routine of whoring, as some of us do with our brain tasks, verbal abuses, or manual forces, achieved paying the rent. On that particular day, and while I was hopping with my dislocated knee, she was dressed in her lime green mini skirt, black blouse, and gray high heels, scuffed. She followed, as usual, the paces of her john around the back of the building where he gestured [to her] to go further, around the other corner. There are two ways to define orders on objects. With quiet words that were stale and bored, she agreed, and continued to the side of the building where it was narrow, dark, and full of accrual. That was about five minutes before I called the police.  Because the building next door was so close, all I could see out my bedroom window was the hand of the john banging on her head punctuated by the decisive thrusting as he lay on top of her.  That was about four minutes before I heard him yell back to her, "Shut up, bitch!" She was getting bloody. That was about three minutes and fifty-nine seconds before I heard her yell at him, "Stop it, man!" Arbitrary order among different objects can be defined through an interface.  The rest of the time, before this succession of events, was spent navigating the essence of lingering seconds, thinking blankly and moving with tremendous effort. Boolean types delimit our actions: birth and death, infectious and incommunicable, wet and dry.